Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
BRANDON MULLIt’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
More Brandon Mull Quotes
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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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Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.
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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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The comforts of life as a fugitive,” Drake sighed. “Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
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Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field.
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Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?” “Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded. “Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.
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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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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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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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That was cool.’ You’re psychotic.
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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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Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
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Patience mimics the power of infinity.
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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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Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
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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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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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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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Fablehaven’s awesome!!so is the candy shop war!
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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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For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
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When you have to jump, you jump.
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I blush to think of her beholding my work,” Verl confessed. So do we,” Newel assured him.
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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.
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You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic-” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.
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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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