The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And … - Brandon Mull

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Brandon Mull

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

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

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

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Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

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