“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…”

—  Garth Nix

He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel."
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Sabriel (1995), p. 14.

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