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.
BRANDON MULLIt was an emergency!” Seth blurted. “Read my lips – emergency reading – not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehave.
More Brandon Mull Quotes
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You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.
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We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.
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What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?” Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. “Nate Sutter.
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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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It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
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The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
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Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.
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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
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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.
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The surprise is on the far side.” “You’re sure?” “Positive.” “It better not be another fairy,” Seth said. “What’s the matter with fairies?” “I’ve already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.
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An unread book does nobody any good
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I would read a book, okay, are you happy?” You had best be careful, Seth,” Grandma warned. “The love of reading can be contagious.” I just lost my appetite,” he declared.
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When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
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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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