Top 100 D.J. MacHale Quotes
#1. A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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#2. It's a supernatural library filled with unfinished ghost stories, written by ghosts, where time has no meaning , and the Boogeyman wants to blow it all up. What exactly is it you think I can handle about any of that ?
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#3. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
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#4. Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.
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#5. We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles ... in a stack of needles
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#6. Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.
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#7. Said to him. "We aren't playing here. Guns kill people." "Guns don't kill people," Tori said. "People kill people." "People with guns kill people," I said. "But you're right. We have to be able to protect ourselves.
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#8. Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory Saint Dane
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#9. Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town! - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
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#11. Some people would look at this and see junk," I said. "Others see history.
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#12. Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. Veelox.
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#13. Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?
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#14. Cooper's imagination was endless, I looked at the bales of felt and saw... bales of felt. Cooper was more like my mom. He didn't just see what was in front of him--he saw potential.
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#15. Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne
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#16. You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes.
Saint Dane
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#17. You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry. -Bobby
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#19. Theo McLean, fact examiner. If I were harsh, I'd say he was a nerd, but it's not cool to put someone down with labels. But man, he was a nerd. He was smart too. Straight-A smart. Except for gym.
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#20. Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)
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#21. Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first, Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)
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#22. Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.
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#23. I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.
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#24. Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?"
Ouch.
Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman."
Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?"
She killed her enemies and ate them.
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#25. I was safe. Uncomfortable as hell, but safe.-Bobby, RR
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#26. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.
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#28. I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise! - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
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#29. What exactly is a french before it's fried?
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#30. Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin
-Bobby Pendragon
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#31. If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War
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#32. Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.
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#33. I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end.
-Bobby Pendragon
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#34. Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane
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#35. Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of "Let's whack Bobby in the dark!" - Bobby Pendragon, RoZ
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#36. The moment. I think back on it. A lot. It's like revisiting a favorite place. A place you wish you could go to again. But I can't because that place doesn't exist anymore, except in my memory.
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#37. It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.
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#38. We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
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#39. In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.
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#40. My head cleared enough to realize she was talking to me slowly as if I was an unbalanced, crazy person, which was smart because I was an unbalanced, crazy person.
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#41. When you think something's out of reach, you back off and say you didn't want it anyway.
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#43. You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.
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#44. We may not have made our grand statement, but we will still have our battle. We are armed with tak and we will triumph. Your efforts have been in vain. The battle is about to begin.
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#45. You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are always logical explanations.
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#46. Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
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#47. Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.'
'Can't.'
'Why not?'
'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off
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#48. And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be ...
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#49. That Loor's a handful, she is. - Spader (Black Water)
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#50. I rode my bike home and did the one thing that always helped when things weren't going well. I read. Books were my refuge. Getting lost in a solid adventure story was the best way I knew of to turn off reality.
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#51. Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.
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#52. A man was sitting on the float wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and a worn Sox cap, working on a lobster trap. The place was classic Maine, like you'd see on a postcard. Tori
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#54. Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Aja, TRB.
It is the name of a female warrior." Loor, TRB.
What did she do that was so heroic?" Aja, TRB
She killed her enemies and ate them." Loor, TRB.
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#55. I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.
It was haunted.
The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.
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#56. Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.
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#57. My feelings for you run very deep." - Loor
Not deep enought, I guess." - Bobby
(The Rivers of Zadaa)
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#58. There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.
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#59. To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin ... and I've always known where it will end.
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#60. President Richard E. Neff stood behind a podium that had the seal of the president of the United States displayed boldly in front. Why
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#61. Riggedy riggedy white Come and spend the night We'll play some games Some wild some tame Cause if you will, you might. By, Laberge
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#63. It took two hours to drive from Portland to Boston. It felt like two days. We
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#64. At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know ... wall.
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#65. Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?
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#66. I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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#67. Courtney came over to me and touched my cheek. I winced. It hurt.
You look like hell," Courtney said.
I shrugged.
She looked at Saint Dane, then back at me. "He looks worse." She smiled. "Awesome.
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#68. Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that?
Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?
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#69. There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech." I said
Alexnder Naymeer and Bobby Pendragon, Raven Rise, Page 458
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#70. I can't let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there's anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it's that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.
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#71. Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise
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#72. Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.
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#73. I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?
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#74. I'm not sure if he physically changes, or if he uses some kind of mind control to make you think he looks different, but the bottom line is you don't always see him coming. And make no mistake about it, the guy is evil.
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#76. If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?
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#77. Never make the first move. - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)
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#78. I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.
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#79. Bobby spotted the black cat lying on a windowsill, sunning itself. They both walked over to it. Bobby tentatively reached out and rubbed his hands across the cat's belly. The cat purred. "Nice," the cat said dreamily. Bobby whipped his hand back.
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#80. My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
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#81. There were eleven of us.
Each more different than the next.
All with the same mindset.
Things weren't the way they were meant to be.
It was our job to make things right.
We were the soldiers of Halla.
It was time for us to take it back.
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#82. I love you Mark ... " Courtney, PoR.
I love you too Courtney ... " Mark, PoR.
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#83. This has been the freakin' longest night of my life," I said with dismay. "Yeah," he replied. "And it's not over yet.
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#84. If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.
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#85. I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.
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#86. There's more to everything that what's obvious," he always said. "You just have to look for it.
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#87. It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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#88. Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR
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#89. I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw ... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.
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#90. Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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#91. I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
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#92. The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
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#93. Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"
-Spader
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#95. I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called ... Eenie, meenie, miney ... mo!
-Bobby Pendragon
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#96. You want to know why we're the ones responsible?" Gunny asked.
I looked up into a pair of wise eyes that had seen far more than mine.
"Because there's nobody else," he said.
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#97. You see, art makes people think. Blok didn't want people to think. If that happened, they might have realized what was actually happening.
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#98. I'm sorry I hurt your hand ... with my face.
-Bobby Pendragon
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#99. Perhaps you should bite me", Bobby Pendragon.
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#100. I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!
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