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• Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

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  Up To You, Has Beens

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

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  Mistake, People, Forgiving

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• I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

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  Dream, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

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  Persuasive

  Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.119, Penguin

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• Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

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  Motherhood, Men, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

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  Care, Cheese, Leprechaun

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

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  Eye, Ceilings, Sometimes

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.

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  Hurt, Needs, Next

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• I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

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  Twilight, Thinking, Hair

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• Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

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  Teenager, Adults, Matter

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

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  Book, School, People

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• I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

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  Crush, Dream, Boys

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.28, Penguin

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• I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.

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  Knights, Feet, Kingdoms

  Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.7, Penguin

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• "Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

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  Said, Disgusting, Nun

  "My Unfair Godmother". Book by Janette Rallison, April 12, 2011.

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• Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

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  Fun, Party, Fortune

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• Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

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  Hurt, Arizona, Plant

  Janette Rallison (2011). “My Unfair Godmother”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.

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  Girl, Teenage, Twilight

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• Happy people are rarely interesting.

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  People, Interesting, Happy People

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

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  Love You, People, Decision

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• Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

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  Crazy, Becoming, Going Crazy

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.79, Penguin

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• Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

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  Needs, Fickle, Rooms

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

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  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

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  Running, Heart, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

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  Pain, Kids, Thinking

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.150, Penguin

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• Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

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  Real, Robins, Robin Hood

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