Brandon Mull
In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.Collection: Mean
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.Collection: Leadership
Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.Collection: Suicide
We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.Collection: Different
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.Collection: Book
Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.Collection: Running
Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.Collection: Decision
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.Collection: Strong
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.Collection: Jumping
Choices determine character.Collection: Character
A lie twice believed is self decievedCollection: Lying
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?Collection: Sacrifice
One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Tired
....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.Collection: Differences
Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.Collection: Lying
Imagination can take you Places....READCollection: Imagination
Patience mimics the power of infinity.Collection: Infinity
An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.Collection: Feelings
He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran had been in this same situation and had made the right choice. Jason felt less alone. Malodor had claimed that his opponents had no heroes among them. But Galloran was proof to the contrary. And Jason would be evidence as well. p. 420Collection: Hero
A crossbow?” Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.Collection: Men
My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.Collection: Dad
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.Collection: Imagination
Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.Collection: Please
So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them." (Beyonders - A World Without Heroes)Collection: Hero
i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)Collection: Hate
What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~SethCollection: Dollars
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." -SethCollection: Next
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersaultCollection: Baby
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.Collection: Reality
The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.Collection: Dark
You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.Collection: Dream
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.Collection: Good Luck
I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.Collection: Trying
Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.Collection: Smart
What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.Collection: Trying
I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Nymphs
It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.Collection: Interesting
False humility is more insulting than open pride!Collection: Humility
Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green.Collection: Cutting
If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Real
Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374Collection: Pleasure
Say no to death pies. Another good motto.Collection: Pie
The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.Collection: Matter
What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.Collection: Dog
After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?Collection: Long
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.Collection: Beautiful