Status Updates From Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy)

‘It’s sounds like a terribly brilliant plan to me,’ muttered Mogget. ‘The genius of simplicity…’
I love this quote because I feel it’s hard to portray sarcasm through writing but I can read the tone in this so easily. Then her response was: ‘Can you think of anything else?’ snapped Sabriel.

I remember reading Lirael and absolutely loving it years ago (like, middle school?), but I don’t believe I ever got to Sabriel. This is already such a delight.

“'Somewhere along the path of his studies, he'd swapped real Life for power and, like all the Dead, he needed to take Life all the time to stay out of Death. But the Charter made it very difficult for him to do that, anywhere in the Kingdom. So he decided to break the Charter. He could have confined himself to breaking a few of the lesser stones, somewhere far away, but that would only give him a tiny area…”

Loving this