“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?”

“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?”

— Brandon Mull