Quotes from Brandon Mull

Seth approached the dog and let it sniff his hand. A warm tongue caressed his palm, and Seth rubbed the top of the animal's head. "You're a good boy," Seth said in his special voice reserved for babies and animals. "You're not going to eat me, right?

Without opening the gate, and keeping one hand near the elevator buttons, Seth shone the flashlight around the room. The last thing he wanted was to get cornered by zombies inside of an elevator.

fingering spots where they had been torn or punctured by boarhound teeth.

Talented or not, I would never assign anyone as young as you two to oversee any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary, except as a last resort.

Living in a mortal world involves pain.... Entropy presides here. Everything moves toward dissolution and death. But physical damage is the lesser problem. The damage to our hearts is far more difficult to repair. We experience loss, disappointments, failure, mistakes. People deliberately harm us. Other wounds are self-inflicted. with experience we learn that we cannot harm another without also harming ourselves. ~The Traveler

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options," Seth muttered.

Let me guess," Newel said. "It won't work on satyrs." "Probably not," Tanu said. Doren gave Newel a high five. "Nap time.

Enough to feed an army for a year." "Or two satyrs for a month," Newel said.

But I do know that 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.

They'll never know about this decision. They'll never know how much their friendship meant to me. But I'll know, and that's enough.

choose death today," the Dragon King called. "Yes, yours," Seth replied.

Are you her boyfriend?" ... No, I'm her fiancé." Nate said. We've been promised to each other since birth," Summer added. Our wedding isn't until March.

Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic." "Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

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

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

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

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

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

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?