Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Time and death sleep side by side.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.

Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.