When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.