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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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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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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.

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Inspirational, Basketball, Hurt

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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.

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Keys, Godmother, Overcoming

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The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

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Wish, May, Kind

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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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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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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.

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Twilight, Thinking, Hair

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People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

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Night, Sky, People

Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.148, Penguin

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

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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.

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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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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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What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

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Thinking, Guy, Handsome

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As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

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Guy, Problem, Contradiction

Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.47, Penguin

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Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

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Lying, Believe, Fiction

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...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

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Dream, Broken, Unattainable

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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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Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

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Nice, Feel Better, Confusing

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

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Crazy, Believe, Eye

Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.106, Penguin

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Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

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Believe, People, Magic

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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