💬 Quotes

"Augustus did not love Rome; he loved the idea of Rome, and he was willing to sacrifice his own happiness and the lives of those closest to him to keep that idea alive."

"We are the Mayfair witches. We are the keepers of the history. We are the ones who endure."

"The house was a living thing, a giant lung that breathed with the ghosts of those who had come before."

"I am not a ghost, Rowan. I am something far older, something that has been waiting for you since before your birth."

"Power is never given; it is taken, and it always demands a price that the soul is rarely prepared to pay."

"You look at the world and see only what you can measure, but you are blind to the architecture of the spirit."

"Everything in this world is connected by threads invisible to the eye but heavy enough to anchor the stars."

"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."