Faith isn’t knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.
BRANDON MULLWas 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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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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I was vanquished by a deer!’ A giant magical flying deer with fangs,’ Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a little better,’ Warren conceded. ‘Seth is in charge of my tombstone.
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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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My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don’t deserve 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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She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.
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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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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
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Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.
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An 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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An unread book does nobody any good
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Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. “That was awesome,” Seth told Kendra. “You’re psychotic,” Kendra replied.
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The love of reading can be contagious.
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Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374
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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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Let’s worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.
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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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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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Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan.” Is it Nate?” She calls me Honeylips.
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break the rules pay the price
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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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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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After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?
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Fablehaven’s awesome!!so is the candy shop war!
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Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
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