….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 MULLI hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you’ve started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.
More Brandon Mull Quotes
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
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Please don’t assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection
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He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him.
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Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra’s death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.
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Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.
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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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Hard to call it a party without sardines.
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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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Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan.” Is it Nate?” She calls me Honeylips.
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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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There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.
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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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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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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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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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