Brandon Mull famous quotes

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.
-- Brandon Mull

#Mean #Heroism #Doing The Right Thing

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
-- Brandon Mull

#Suicide #Spiritual #Emotional

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
-- Brandon Mull

#Leadership #Real #Mistake

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.
-- Brandon Mull

#Running #Eye #Hazards

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
-- Brandon Mull

#Book #Mind #Stories

Choices determine character.
-- Brandon Mull

#Character #Choices #Determine

False humility is more insulting than open pride!
-- Brandon Mull

#Humility #Pride #Insulting

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.
-- Brandon Mull

#Trying #Stop Trying

....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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Differences #Listening #Hearing

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Strong #Firsts #Faults

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
-- Brandon Mull

#Good Luck #Luck #Way

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
-- Brandon Mull

#Fool #Sometimes #Speak

What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth
-- Brandon Mull

#Dollars #Idiot

The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness
-- Brandon Mull

#Light #Swings #Darkness

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

#Mom #Home #School

It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.
-- Brandon Mull

#Horse #Parent #World

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?
-- Brandon Mull

#Sacrifice #Advice #Doubt

I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.
-- Brandon Mull

#Tombstone #Flying #Sound

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
-- Brandon Mull

#Trying #Pigeons #Slave

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.
-- Brandon Mull

#Two #Brain #Three

Patience mimics the power of infinity.
-- Brandon Mull

#Infinity

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." ~Fablehaven - Rise of the Evening Star
-- Brandon Mull

#Stars #Bad Day #Evening

Hello," Newel said. "Look, Doren, we have visitors. Kendra, Seth, and ... Muriel's weirdo puppet."....Newel grabbed Seth's hand and shook it vigorously. "Congratulations. You just found yourself a secret entrance." "So seriously," Doren said. "What's with the puppet?
-- Brandon Mull

#Congratulations #Hands #Secret

Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited
-- Brandon Mull

#Adults #Nodding #Rooms

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

#Risk #Way #Causes

i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)
-- Brandon Mull

#Hate #Son #Past

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

#Dog #Names #Jason

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)
-- Brandon Mull

#Hero #Mean #Sacrifice

Whatever you do," Seth said around a chewy mouthful, "try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic." "I'll keep that in mind.
-- Brandon Mull

#Games #Play #Long

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
-- Brandon Mull

#Interesting #Want #Stuff

Don't let the brownies bite.
-- Brandon Mull

#Brownies

And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel." Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.
-- Brandon Mull

#Believe #Purpose #Firsts

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Sleep #Tired #Wish

Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?
-- Brandon Mull

#Necks #Pieces #World

Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool." "All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said.
-- Brandon Mull

#Sorry #Boys #Expression

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
-- Brandon Mull

#Imagination #Fantasy

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Horse #Wall #Doors

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Weed #Doors #Waiting

Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot.
-- Brandon Mull

#Hurt #Reading #Book

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Dirty #Taken #Cells

I guess Smart Seth is glad, he said reluctantly. But be careful. Idiot Seth is the guy to watch out for.
-- Brandon Mull

#Smart #Guy #Watches

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.
-- Brandon Mull

#Father #Writing #Law

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Real #Trying #Fleeting

Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
-- Brandon Mull

#Pie #Motto

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.
-- Brandon Mull

#Doors #Voice #Unlocking

For Frito-Lay!" - Newel and Doren
-- Brandon Mull

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

#Thinking #Brave #Caves

We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.
-- Brandon Mull

#War #Belief #Behavior

This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.
-- Brandon Mull

#Feelings #Mind #Needs

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.
-- Brandon Mull

#Hate #Past #Grandpa