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	Hard to call it a party without sardines.   
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	Being butchered by monkeys is pretty low on my list of ways to go.   
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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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	Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.   
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	Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.   
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	Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course.   
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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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	When survival was in question, you fought hard and you seized every advantage, because your enemy was sure to do the same.   
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	You look tired," Rachel told Jason. "I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time." "Can't you?" Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. "I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel." "I probably could today," Jason conceded.   
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	We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.   
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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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	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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	Kendra felt stunned. She had been cuddling and flirting with the son of the Fairy Queen?   
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	I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.   
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	That’s what I keep trying to tell everyone! Finally, somebody gets it! I think Mom is going to choke Kendra to death.   
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	An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.   
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	I am custodian of the knowledge hoarded here.   
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	Before Five Kingdoms is complete, I will begin work on the sequel series to my Fablehaven books. It will be called Dragonwatch. I’m excited to share more stories about the characters of Fablehaven including Kendra, Seth, Newel, Doren, Warren, Bracken, Vanessa, Raxtus, etc. If you’re liking Five Kingdoms but haven’t tried Fablehaven, you should get to know those people! If you’d like to connect.   
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	I sound. Like a demented rooster.   
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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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	Wow! I can hardly believe I finished Beyonders.   
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	Feeding off each other, magnified by the knowledge that the laughter was so inappropriate, their mirth was uncontrollable.   
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	A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship.   
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	Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual It was a weak pass okay.   
