Fablehaven Book 2 Quotes & Sayings

him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles — Susan Jane Gilman

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice. — Carlisle Floyd

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture. — Peter Block

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around ... — Jimmy Buffett

The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth. — Alexander McCall Smith

But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions. — Matt Lucas

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was 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?"
You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious."
I just lost my appetite," he declared ... — Brandon Mull

I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.' — Zach Braff

Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here. — Ava Gardner

I shan't take advantage,' Lucius promised seriously. 'And she can't be forced into a marriage, of course. It is a new century. Unfortunately. But I am afraid that I am compelled to pursue this courtship until Antanasia realizes her place at my side. As she will.'
'I will not. — Beth Fantaskey

Looking more closely at Earth's atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it. — Sam Smith

In the end, the truth doesn't matter. — John Connolly

Being with her was near impossible.
But being without her ... I didn't want to think about it.
Aren from Hunter's Moon — Lisa Kessler