Garth Nix @ MindSay

I will happily admit that I am a wild crazy Harry Potter fan that would rape Oliver Wood if I ever got the chance. So I was looking something up in the first book, and everytime I read the first book I have to go the last paragraph of the first chapter and read it.

I think it one of the most captivating parts in all of the books, it just kind of seems to echo the rest of all the books.

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blanckets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, not knowing that he would spend the next few weeks beeing prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley....He couldn't know that at his very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses ans saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter- The boy who lived!"

See how well that gives us a look at Harry Potter...I like it.

Garth Nix...I love him. He wrote The Abhorsen series. It has a lot to do with necromacers, and dealing with the dead. This book has two little phrases that seem to encompass the, more or less, theme of these books. And unlike the previous example, these are little phrases that are sprinkled through all the books. The first one is written on Abhorsen's sword...The second one is kinda like Abhorsen's creed.

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, thte Abhorsen weilds         me so that no dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path

Does the walker choose the path? Or the path the Walker?

So now that I am on a roll, I though I would throw some of my love, Tolkein, in there. Now, in The Lord of The Rings, it is a bit harder to pick up on just one major theme. You have so many going on at once. But here are the few that have always meant the most to me. The first, about utter and complete friendship, loalty, and love. The next, about a standing up to become who you are.

'Frodo, Mr. Frodo!' he called. 'Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! O Wake up, Frodo, me dear, me dear. Wake up!'

All that is gold, does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost

The old that are strong do not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost

From the ashes a fire shall waken, a light from the shadows shall spring

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king

This last one, if from one of my favortie books. Now, when it became such I couldn't relate to it as much as I can now. Dracula...Now I am sure you have all seen some sort of movie or something that is based ( that is a very very loose term) on Brams Stroker's Dracula. For, if you read the book, I find it isn't about fighing evil. Don't get me wrong, that is a large part of it, but not the heart of it. Maybe this will help you understand it, and maybe even me, better.

Already he knows her sweetness and loving cares; later on he will understand how some  men loved her, that they did dare much for he sake

My Dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?

And there you a have it. Some of them may mean more to you if you have read the book. Or maybe the only way to see it the way I do is to have lived my life...Either way...There you have it.

~Princess Zelda

Damn...you mean I have to give your asses another quote?? Well...Umm...Okat...I can do that.

"My dad is going to kick your ass,"