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• Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

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  Important, Lessons, Accomplish

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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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• The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

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  Dad, Thinking, Skins

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

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  People, House, Trying

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

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  Games, Dating, Next Level

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• New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

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  New York, Nice, Feelings

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• Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

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  Long, Tails, Malls

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• Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

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  Children, Decision, Selling

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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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• 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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• Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

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  Powerful, Wish, World

  Janette Rallison (2011). “My Unfair Godmother”, p.167, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

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  Stories, World, New World

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• The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

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  Ice Cream, Shoes, Flavor

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• That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

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  Book, Two, People

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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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• 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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