Brandon Mull

“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”

“A crossbow?” Pigeon asked.I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.”

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

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

“Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.“Does your mother call you Pigeon?”“No.”“Then to me you are Paul.”...“Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read.“My mother never calls me Nathan.”“Is it Nate?”“She calls me Honeylips.”

“I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.”

“This was a great book! It follows how Jason Walker is transported back to earth after spending months in Lyrian. He knows that he has things that he still must do in Lyrian. He decides to try and find a way back. The problem is that if he doesn't travel through the portal correctly, he will die. What happens next? You'll have to read the book to find out.”

“My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.”

“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...”

“In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again.”

“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.”

“Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war!”

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

“I like pancakes.”

“None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.”

“A lie twice believed is self decieved”

“Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail.""Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.”

“He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren”

“Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”