Janette Rallison Quotes

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

  Janette Rallison

  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.

  Janette Rallison

  Dream, Thinking, Appreciate

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Care, Cheese, Leprechaun

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

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• Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

  Janette Rallison

  Persuasive

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

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• You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

  Janette Rallison

  Inspirational, Basketball, Hurt

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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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• 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.

  Janette Rallison

  Twilight, Thinking, Hair

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• The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

  Janette Rallison

  Keys, Godmother, Overcoming

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

  Janette Rallison

  Real, Robins, Robin Hood

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Knights, Feet, Kingdoms

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

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Hurt, Needs, Next

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Teenager, Adults, Matter

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

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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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• 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.

  Janette Rallison

  Book, School, People

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• Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

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  Dark, Thinking, Pirate

  Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.69, Penguin

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Love You, People, Decision

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• You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

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  Mother, Men, Wife

  Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.49, 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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• 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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• Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

  Janette Rallison

  Long, Tails, Malls

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• The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

  Janette Rallison

  Games, Dating, Next Level

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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