Home / Quotes / Quote by Garth Nix

Quote by Garth Nix

“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.”

Quote by Garth Nix

Work

In this fantasy novel, Lirael, a young woman from a noble family, finds herself in a world where magic and politics intertwine. As she navigates the challenges of her new role and the secrets of her past, Lirael uncovers a plot that threatens the very fabric of her world. The novel is known for its intricate plot, vivid characters, and deep exploration of themes such as identity, power, and the struggle between good and evil. more

Author

Garth Nix is an Australian author renowned for his fantasy novels. Born in July 1963, he has been active in the literary world since the 1980s. Nix's works are celebrated for their rich imagination, complex narrative structures, and profound themes. more

You May Also Like

“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”

Said Book Dangerous Missing Hundred Gun

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.”

World States Form Speak Heaven Share Stage Ego Degrees Eating Highest Regard Unity Chaos Breathing Fixed Delusion Phenomenon Inheritance Imperatives Folds Detached Manifold

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.”

Source: Steppenwolf

“Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.”

Said Differences Products Optimism Projection Parkinson's Optimism And Hope

Author:Michael J. Fox

“His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.”

Doe Two Body Spirit Saint Sinner Steppenwolf

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.”

Dies Next Sound Hours Fate Wind Breaths Fruit Size Resolve Ripe Whim

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.”

I Can Bigs Fire Five Hundred Thrown Impossibility Fire Of Love

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.”

Doe Has Beens Might Together America Courses Goal Canada Working Together Devoted Might Have Been Ethos Dig Deep Quaint Getting Along

Book:The Wordy Shipmates

Source: The Wordy Shipmates

“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Giving Lasts Night Black Sleep White Poor Watches Rich Five Minutes Ten Folks Complaining Weather Life Lesson Five Minutes Last Night Can't Change Plowing

Author:Maya Angelou

“There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.”

Ifs Moments Would Be Opportunity Ability Our Lives Special Willing Ready Unique Tragedy Shoulders Not Ready Precious Moments

Author:Winston Churchill