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He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added.
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Everyone should get to clobber a princess at least once.
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The sun shines. Sometimes it burns too hot, sometimes it bothers the eyes, but it is a reality of life, and so we live beneath its glare and seek shade and shelter as needed.
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The memory of the funeral made Kendra shiver. There was a wake beforehand, where Grandma and Grandpa Larsen were showcased in matching caskets. Kendra did not like seeing Grandpa Larsen wearing makeup. What lunatic had decided that when people died you should hire a taxidermist to fix them up for one final look? She would much rather remember them alive than on grotesque display in their Sunday best. The Larsens were the grandparents who had been part of her life. They had shared many holidays and long visits.
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Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
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Brandon’s greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.
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What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.
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Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war!
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You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism.
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In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.
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After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?
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Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.
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Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. 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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What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.
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Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name. “Does your mother call you Pigeon?” “No.” “Then to me you are Paul.” ... “Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. “My mother never calls me Nathan.” “Is it Nate?” “She calls me Honeylips.
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A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. 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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Only two towers remained standing, one of which was so crooked and damaged it looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly.
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If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace.
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Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.
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Instead of responding, he started looking more intently for the other corner pieces. Kendra could tell the comment had gotten to him. She decided not to tease him any further. The fact that he seemed scared of the lady he had met in the woods legitimized his story a lot. Seth had never scared easily. This was the kid who had jumped off the roof under the misguided assumption that a garbage bag would work like a parachute. The kid who had put the head of a live snake in his mouth on a dare.
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Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.
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Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important.
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Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection.
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Crazy world it was where a woman showed more worry about him poking his eye out with a sword than she did about him taking fifty-yard leaps from one building to another.