….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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More Brandon Mull Quotes
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Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.” ~Fablehaven – Rise of the Evening Star
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My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don’t deserve it.
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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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The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
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Everyone should get to clobber a princess at least once,” Jason said.
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Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic.” “Sure you were,” Jason said. “You’re just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.
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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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Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan.” Is it Nate?” She calls me Honeylips.
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When you have to jump, you jump.
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One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
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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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Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374
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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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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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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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