Brandon Mull Quotes
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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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When he turned his attention inward, Cole could feel his power burning bright.
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...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
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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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If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.
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Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
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Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
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Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.
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Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything." "There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce." Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker." The image made Kendra giggle.
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Anything that terrible had to be healthy.
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Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course.
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Glancing up, Kendra saw a golden owl with a human face gazing down at her from a high limb, a tear sliding from one eye.
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No matter how hard I try, there's a cynical corner of my mind where everything is an act. People are game pieces. Information is currency.
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He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren.
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Many lessons must be lived to be understood. You’ll find that it doesn’t so much matter what happens as you live—what gives it all purpose and meaning is who you become.
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The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness.
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Wow! I can hardly believe I finished Beyonders.
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The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking.
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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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The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.
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Meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear. His heart already knew he should.
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In his first communication, which arrived via homing canister, Hank told me that if we acquired the Translocator, he had a way to smuggle us in. The day I learned you had recovered the Translocator, I sent word to Hank, journeyed to a predetermined location in Istanbul, and found a dwarf awaiting me.
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Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today. Today they were driving along an endless two-lane highway through the forested hills of Connecticut.
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The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".