“Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.”

“‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.”

“Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works.""It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.”

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”

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

“Time and death sleep side by side.”