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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

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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Constitution Deteriorate Person Remember Wonder
Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374
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Courses Main Course Pleasure
Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.
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Differences Heaven Matter
Then I’m going?” Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss,” Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited
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Adults Nodding Rooms
We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.
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Determine Different Use
I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you’ve started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.
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Grandpa Hate Past
Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan.” Is it Nate?” She calls me Honeylips.
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Call Mother Teacher
I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.
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Come Knows Stop Trying
The girl with the long brown hair turned around. “Are you her boy friend?” she asked. Summer glanced from Crystal to Nate and back.
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Boys Girl Summer
It 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.
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Book Fun Grandma
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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Congratulations Hands Secret
He’s stubborn,” Tux warned in a singsong tone. “Stay out of this,” Mark spat. “And touchy,” Tux added.
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Spats Stubborn Tone
My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don’t deserve it.
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Dad Deserve People
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
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Fantasy Imagination Leave
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
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Baby Dove Rooms
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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Disguise Most Nourished

….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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….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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