Quotes from Brandon Mull

We like to imagine our identities are fixed, while in reality so many adjust like chameleons to fit the circumstances around them. We tend to develop based on how we are nurtured and go where we are directed. -Humbuggle

A RIM FEX EN DRA PUSE

But it was an awful lot of responsibility to give to somebody who liked sticking French fries in his nostrils.

Adults always underestimate kids. They get all protective because they think we're babies.

Don't worry," Sidekick assured him. "You won't see any mold. It'll be dark.

But I am now aware that these words will reach an audience

he was a ten-year-old Chilean kid who liked to play soccer and flirt.

To somebody who hasn't had any milk, do you look like a guy or a cow?" Seth asked. Brunwin glared. "I mean bull," Seth amended. "A guy or a bull.

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." "The

Please do not obsess over choices you cannot change. Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future.

Renford's father got me from behind with a hoe.

Ready to start summer school?" he asked. "If it means we get to see cool monsters, absolutely," Seth replied.

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

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.

Drink the milk.

Choices determine character.

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

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

Excruciating agony makes me cranky.

We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.

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.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

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.

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.