Brad Meltzer Quotes

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As your father, my instinct is to protect you... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

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I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.

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When you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

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There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

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In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

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Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

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We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

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Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

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A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

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The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

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Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

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Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

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When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

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Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

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From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

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Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

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And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

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There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

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History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

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She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

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There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

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Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

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In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

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So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

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For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

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I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

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It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

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