“Alternatives! Probabilities!”

“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.”

“It's always better to be doing.”

“For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.”

“My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...”

“Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.”

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”