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.

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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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• 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.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Twilight

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Night, Sky, People

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

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

  Janette Rallison

  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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• 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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• 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.

  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.

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  Hurt, Needs, Next

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• A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

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  Mom, Mother, Doors

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.179, 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.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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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.

  Janette Rallison

  Love You, People, Decision

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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 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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• No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.

  Janette Rallison

  Nice, Dental Floss, Teeth

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• Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I said. She raised an eyebrow. “It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn’t you?” Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. “Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?” She rolled her eyes. “No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.

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  Mother, Nice, Eye

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

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  Done, Impossible, Sometimes

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

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  Blow, Wind, Broken

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.149, Penguin

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