Brandon Mull Quotes
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She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra's death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.
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Without opening the gate, and keeping one hand near the elevator buttons, Seth shone the flashlight around the room. The last thing he wanted was to get cornered by zombies inside of an elevator.
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That was cool.' You're psychotic.
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All right. Since the world is about to end, why not give an impossible jailbreak one last try?
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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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Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand.
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Orphans have to run well. A slow orphan ends up in jail.
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They would probably search for him all over the zoo—the last place he’d been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo.
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Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.
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You don't get it? He poisonded me! He poisonded me, and you're next. I'm going to die. We're all going to die.
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The absence of suffocating humidity and carnivorous plants was appreciated.
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Was the anticipation worse than the event itself?
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He’ll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.
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Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
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Yes, we have different viewpoints represented among us," she continued. "Yes, we have a displacer in our number, and a half giant, and a seedman who publicly disgraced us." "She's talking about you," Drake muttered to Nollin, loud enough to draw a laugh. "No, Drake, I'm talking about you," Farfalee corrected.
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The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.
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The only thing more alarming that what is in that cave will be your punishment if we somehow survive.
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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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The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even manage to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die.
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At the far end of the room, upon a moldering dais, a shabby man sat upon a battered thrown. A dingy rag bound his eyes, a tarnished crown rested upon his grey hair, and a grimy green robe edged in dirty white fur enshrouded his body. He looked like some homeless guy playing the part of a wise man in a soup kitchen Christmas pageant.
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An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.