"Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

"We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become."
— Brandon Mull

"Drink the milk."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

"FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone."
— Brandon Mull

"When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague)

"I like pancakes."
— Brandon Mull

"I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered.
Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"Hello," Newel said. "Look, Doren, we have visitors. Kendra, Seth, and ... Muriel's weirdo puppet."....Newel grabbed Seth's hand and shook it vigorously. "Congratulations. You just found yourself a secret entrance."
"So seriously," Doren said. "What's with the puppet?"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

"“A crossbow?” Pigeon asked.
“I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said."
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

""Then I'm going?" Kendra asked.
The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding.
"Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said.
Everyone turned to him.
"How do I get invited "
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague)

"We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

"" You don't get it? He poisonded me! He poisonded me, and you're next. I'm going to die. We're all going to die."
-Seth"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

"“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page."
"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague)

"“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.”"
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

"When you have to jump, you jump."
— Brandon Mull

"Choices determine character."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"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."
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

"....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."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

"ROBBING GRAVES! SHES ASKING US TO ROB GRAVES!"
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

""break the rules pay the price""
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

"Excruciating agony makes me cranky."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"“There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated.
“You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested."
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

"“Hard to call it a party without sardines.”"
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

" You should have Hugo throw you in the pool."
The golem turned his head toward Seth, who shrugged.
"Sure, that would be fun."
Hugo nodded, grabbed Seth, and, with a motion like a hook shot, flung him skyward. Kendra gasped. They were still thirty or forty feet away from the edge of the pool. She had pictured the golem carrying Seth much closer before tossing him. Her brother sailed nearly as high as the roof of the house before plummeting down and landing in the center of the deep end with an impressive splash.
Kendra ran to the side of the pool. By the time she arrived, Seth was boosting himself out of the waster, hair and clothes dripping. "That was the freakiest, awesomest moment in my life!" Seth declared. "But next time, let me take off my shoes."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

"I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

"My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it."
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

"'That was cool.'
'You're psychotic.'"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague)

"'All boys belong in insane asylums.'"
— Brandon Mull

"She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons."
— Brandon Mull

""I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options," Seth muttered.
"Then you've started down the road to wisdom," Grandpa replied."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

""Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.""
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

"The girl with the long brown hair turned around. "Are you her boy friend?" she asked.
Summer glanced from Crystal to Nate and back. Then question made her feel a little awkward. After all, she had saved him a seat.
"No, I'm her fiance," Nate said.
"We've been promised to each other since birth." Summer added.
"Our wedding isn't until March." "
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

""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"
— Brandon Mull

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

""The society killed Kendra."
...
"Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.""
— Brandon Mull

"...there is a difference between earing and listening. you can't always help what you hear. but you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

"An unread book does nobody any good"
— Brandon Mull

"Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual
It was a weak pass okay"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star)

"Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others."
— Brandon Mull

"The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault"
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

"I like pancakes"
— Brandon Mull

"We all possess different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

""I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options," Seth muttered.
"Then you've started down the road to wisdom," Grandpa replied."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary)

""Nathan Sutter," the teacher read.
"Here. My mother never calls me Nathan."
"Is it Nate?"
"She calls me Honeylips."
"
— Brandon Mull (The Candy Shop War)

"Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague)

"drink the milk!"
— Brandon Mull