Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374
BRANDON MULLAn unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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Patience mimics the power of infinity.
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Hello,” Newel said. “Look, Doren, we have visitors. Kendra, Seth, and … Muriel’s weirdo puppet.”….Newel grabbed Seth’s hand and shook it vigorously. “Congratulations. You just found yourself a secret entrance.” “So seriously,” Doren said. “What’s with the puppet?
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Don’t let the brownies bite.
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In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.
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We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it.
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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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You look tired,” Rachel told Jason. “I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time.” “Can’t you?” Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. “I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel.” “I probably could today,” Jason conceded.
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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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Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
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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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Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
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Choices determine character.
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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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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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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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