💬 Quotes

"We are defined not by the blood we were born into, but by the blood we choose to protect."

"Sometimes you have to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself."

"The cage wasn't locked. I just kept closing the door."

"I am not a mother, a wife, or a daughter first. I am a woman, and I belong to myself."

"Beautiful, damned, chaotic life. It is the only thing we have, and it is entirely ours."

"We are all untamed, hidden beneath layers of what we were told we should be."

"You don't have to be a martyr to be a good person. You don't have to suffer to prove your worth."

"I do not call you a fool. You are a Talking Horse; a beast, but a talking one. That is a kind of foolery in itself."

"High King Peter was never a man of many words. He looked at Rabadash and said, 'You have had your choice, Rabadash. You have had your day. And you have had your say.'"

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"

"Death is not the end. It is simply a change of state, and not always a final one."

"I am the Abhorsen. I am the gatekeeper. I am the one who puts the dead to rest."

"Nine bells there are: Ranna, Mosrael, Kibeth, Dyrim, Belgaer, Saraneth, Astarael, and the two that are not named in the charter."

"The Charter is not just law; it is the very fabric of the world, woven into the stones and the air itself."

"The people of the mountains are like the mountains themselves—hard, unforgiving, but capable of great beauty."

"I’m not a hero. I’m just a guy who stumbled into a situation and tried to do the right thing."

"The pride of the mage is that he knows the true name of things, and so can command them."

"To know the name of a thing is to have power over it, but only if you know the thing itself as well."

"You must not seek to know what lies beyond the horizon, but what lies within yourself."

"He was growing, but he was alone; and he had to learn that to be powerful is not to be free."