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….there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can’t always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

Brandon Mull

Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.
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Focus Jason Thinking
The love of reading can be contagious.
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Asparagus Love Reading
If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.
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Hero People Sacrifice
….there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can’t always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.
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Differences Hearing Listening
What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?” Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. “Nate Sutter.
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Ask Brain Three Two
Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. “What do you want?” Jason asked. No answer. “Are you the thing that followed Tark?
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Distance Real Sleep
Then question made her feel a little awkward. After all, she had saved him a seat. No, I’m her fiance,” Nate said. We’ve been promised to each other since birth.” Summer added. Our wedding isn’t until March.
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Made Promised Question Summer
Let’s worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.
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Blame Fixing Worry
Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374
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Courses Main Course Pleasure
Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. “That was awesome,” Seth told Kendra. “You’re psychotic,” Kendra replied.
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Awesome Overlapping Projective Staircase
And you came back to Lyrian?” Galloran said in disbelief. “Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose.
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Believe Heroism Tanks
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
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Fantasy Imagination Leave
What’ll you do if you can’t find a way to cure him?” Seth asked. Dale paused. “I’ll never know that day has come, because I’ll never stop trying.
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Cures Trying Way
You should keep following him. He’s the real mastermind. Shoo. Go hide.” No response. “Okay, how about you stand guard while I sleep. Keep the giants away. Sound good? All in favor, hold perfectly still. Fine, I guess we have a deal.
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Favor Guard Mastermind Response Sound
An unread book does nobody any good
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Book Nobody Unread
Please don’t assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection
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Assault Causes Meat

….there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can’t always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

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