There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out.
BRAD MELTZER…as your father, my instinct is to protect you … Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
More Brad Meltzer Quotes
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren’t who we think they are.
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I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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Overwatch doesn’t just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us – or admitting we can’t do it all ourselves.
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In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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Our fathers never leave us. Ever.
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Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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You tell them – you tell them there’s a cost…..Every decision we make in life, there’s always a cost.
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As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you’re in, when you want something – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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I understand pain. I’ve lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter’s book is the last one – because it’s blank. It says, “Your Hero’s Photo Here,” and, “Your Hero’s Story Here.”
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