I like pancakes.

— Brandon Mull

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.

— Brandon Mull

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

— Brandon Mull

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 Fable haven, 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

It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.

— Brandon Mull

Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there.

— Brandon Mull

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

— Brandon Mull

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.

— Brandon Mull

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

— Brandon Mull

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

— Brandon Mull