Brandon Mull citations

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“Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.”

“Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.”

“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."
-Seth”

“My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.”

“When you have to jump, you jump.”

“I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed.
So do we," Newel assured him.”

“Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.”

“Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.”

“Patience mimics the power of infinity.”

“I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.”

“A lie twice believed is self decieved”

“There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated.
You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.”

“In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

“Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.”

“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?”

“Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.”

“Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.”

“Hard to call it a party without sardines.”

“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”

“Say no to death pies. Another good motto.”

“Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded.
"You would never do any work." (Nate's mom)
"Sounds perfect!”

“Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?”
“Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded.
“Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.”

“I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth”

“She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.”

“What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.”

“For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.”

“… your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion… Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”