# Shade's Children

- Author: [Garth Nix](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garth-nix.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/garth-nix/shades-children

## Quotes

> The Trackers were on the move again, spreading out to search. It sounded like a trio on each side of the train, coming toward him.
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> Gold-Eye pictured them in his head, trying to get his Change Vision to show him exactly where they were.
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> But the Change Vision came and went when it chose, and couldn't be controlled.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garth-nix/shades-children/the-trackers-were.md)

> Gold-Eye's Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture of the unpleasantly close future, the soon-to-be-now.
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> Doors slid open at each end of the carriage, forced apart by metal-gauntleted hands four times the size of Gold-Eye's own. Fog no longer fell in lazy swirls, but danced and spiraled crazily as huge shapes lumbered in, moving to the pile of blankets...
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> Gold-Eye didn't wait to see more. He came out of the vision and took the escape route he'd planned months before, when he'd first found the carriage. Lifting a trapdoor in the floor, he dropped down, down to the cold steel rails.

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garth-nix/shades-children/gold-eyes-change-vision.md)

> Soon the Myrmidons would surround him, silver nets shooting out to catch him in their sticky tracery. Then a Winger would come to take him away. Back to the Dorms. Or if he was old enough... straight to the Meat Factory.

p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garth-nix/shades-children/soon-the-myrmidons.md)