Top 180 Brandon Mull Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Sometimes good things come in small, dented packages.”

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152. “I sound. Like a demented rooster.”

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153. “A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions.”

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154. “Because I’m what happens when luck meets skill,” Seth said, “and they get into a serious relationship.”

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155. “I want you to appreciate what you’re up against. You will have to succeed where multitudes have failed. You’ll have to accomplish something that the mightiest wizard in the history of Lyrian didn’t dare to attempt.”

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156. “He’ll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.”

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157. “Everyone causes harm,” Calvin said. “Sometimes we hurt others, and sometimes we hurt ourselves. If you’ve caused a problem, you learn and do better. You become smarter for next time. And you undo what harm you can.”

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158. “All boys belong in insane asylums,” Kendra said.”

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159. “I know I’m not permanent in this world,” Kendra said. “But guess what – neither is the sun. I get to live my life. Someday death will free me and I will go someplace new. I don’t want to get stuck here. What if this life is just the beginning?” What if death means the end?”

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160. “Questions that start with ‘why’ are the toughest to answer,” Dale said. “You end up guessing more than knowing.”

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161. “She would have to depend on her brother, who had better intentions than ability when it came to coloring inside the lines.”

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162. “Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.”

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163. “No mythology or religion that I know of holds all the answers. Most religions are based on truths, but they are also polluted by the philosophies and imaginations of men.”

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164. “You talk about dying bravely, what about living bravely?”

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165. “Toys are meant to be played with. Do your best to keep them in decent shape, and that will be good enough.”

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166. “It was an emergency!” Seth blurted. “Read my lips – emergency reading – not some demented idea of fun. If I were starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?”

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167. “Ticks are everywhere. Same with poison ivy. If people let that stop them, nobody would ever go anywhere.”

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168. “This could be her last day of her life.”

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169. “It was very foolish to catch a fairy, Seth,” Grandpa said. “I warned you they were unsafe. But I share some of the blame. I’m sure you were inspired by Maddox and wanted to begin a career as a fairy broker.”

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170. “Pack all of your desires away, lock them up, and throw out the key.”

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171. “If you’re going to die, you might as well be doing something really, really stupid.”

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172. “The fundamental premises of the law are mischief for mischief, magic for magic, violence for violence.”

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173. “People who actually fix problems sometimes have to take risks.”

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174. “If you go where you do not belong, you could open the door to vicious retribution from powerful enemies.”

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175. “We weren’t quite immortal. We did not age, so I suppose some of our kind could endure forever, if lakes and rivers last forever. Difficult to say. We did not really live, not like mortals. We dreamed.”

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176. “Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.”

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177. “Let me guess,” Newel said. “It won’t work on satyrs.” “Probably not,” Tanu said. Doren gave Newel a high five. “Nap time.”

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178. “If you’re going to take a huge risk, and you want to stay out of trouble, it really helps if your plan actually works.”

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179. “Why would you go and ruin a perfectly good steak with ketchup?”

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180. “I heard she did it with the sword you found,” Dad said. “That’s what I keep trying to tell everyone! Finally, somebody gets it! I think Mom is going to choke Kendra to death.” The comment brought his mom over to him. She embraced him tightly. “Hey, Mom,” Seth grunted. “I thought I was kidding about the strangulation.”

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181. “Kendra wished for a rock to throw at her brother.”

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182. “Sometimes good people grow weary of society.”

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183. “Everything is better with Seth around.”

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184. “It’s clumsy to trust anyone. People are uniformly imperfect and erratic. But if you have to guess, bet on them serving their own interests.”

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185. “Tammy’s fallen tomahawk.”

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186. “In the end, it was one or the other – be myself, or please my father. I chose me. And loyalty to my real friends.”

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187. “You were a friend at my lowest point... That’s a true friend. I’ll always be yours.”

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188. “And Kendra turned her back on him. “Come back here!” Celebrant bellowed. “How dare you!” She did not turn. She refused to glance back. Her legs felt unsteady, but she kept walking. “Nobody turns their back on me!” Celebrant thundered. Kendra kept walking. She could hear him breathing fire. Or energy. Or something. It didn’t matter. The barrier would hold. Celebrant was making a lot of noise. But underneath it, as she entered the tower, Kendra heard a comforting sound. Marat was laughing.”

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189. “Hours, days, and years have become voids within voids. I stand alone against the impossible. And the universe sends children. How can I serve you? Would you care for some candy? Perhaps a bedtime story?”

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190. “Satisfying needs is the burden of the poor. The wealthy and the powerful can afford to indulge their wants and whims.”

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191. “You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today.”

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192. “I no longer fear honesty. I have learned that anything important accomplished through dishonest means eventually unravels. Facing unpleasant truths protects us from building on faulty foundations.”

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193. “What lunatic had decided that when people died you should hire a taxidermist to fix them up for one final look? She would much rather remember them alive than on grotesque display in their Sunday best.”

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

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