Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
BRANDON MULLBeing smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
More Brandon Mull Quotes
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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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…even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
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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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We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.
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The comforts of life as a fugitive,” Drake sighed. “Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
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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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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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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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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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Choices determine character.
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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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Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
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Drake. He liked dangerous pies.” “Why did he join you?” “Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?” “Focus. Why did he join you?” “Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I’m getting a headache.” p. 432
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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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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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