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Choices determine character.

Brandon Mull

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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Age Nymphs Youth
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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Causes Risk Way
It was an emergency!” Seth blurted. “Read my lips – emergency reading – not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehave.
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Book Fun Grandma
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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Awesome Overlapping Projective Staircase
For Frito-Lay!” – Newel and Doren
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Country Lay People Person
I blush to think of her beholding my work,” Verl confessed. So do we,” Newel assured him.
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Assured Confessed Thinking
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
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Agony Cranky Excrulating
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don’t always get things right.
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Choices Growing Up Mistakes
We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.
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Determine Different Use
An unread book does nobody any good
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Book Nobody Unread
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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Brave Caves Thinking
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
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Baby Dove Rooms
…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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Gains Smart Trying
Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?
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Advice Doubt Sacrifice
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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All Alone Hiding Jason
Can’t you home school me?” Nate pleaded. “You would never do any work.” (Nate’s mom) “Sounds perfect!
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Home Mom School
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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Interesting Stuff Want
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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Believe Heroism Tanks
What’s the dog called?”Jason asked. “Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh.” “No, I meant his entire name.
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Dog Names
The comforts of life as a fugitive,” Drake sighed. “Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
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Comfort Dark Stumbling
One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
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Deception Eye Open
….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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Differences Hearing Listening
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
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Leadership Mistake Real
There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.
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Eggs Use White
An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.
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Feelings Negative Normal
Please don’t assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection
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Assault Causes Meat
Running toward danger is foolhardy. … But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.
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Eye Hazard Running

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