"I think I might love you too, Charter help me, but now is-" — Garth Nix

Five Great Charters knit the land

together linked hand and hand.

One in the people who wear the crown

Two in the folk who keep the Dead down

Three and Five became stone and mortar

Four sees all in frozen water.

"A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more."

"I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen..."

He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel."