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1 " Whatever happened to the dragon?" I mustered my primmest tone. " He has a name, you know." Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look. " I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?" " Hopper." When Adrian laughed, I added, " Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on." " Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?" " I think you mean the Ivashkinator." He stared at me in wonder. " I told you I loved you, right?" Yes," I assured him. " Many times. "

2 " Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him. "

― Christopher Hitchens , Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

3 " Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continents. Several alternatives to America were actively considered -Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, Freedonia or Fredonia (whose denizens would be called Freeds or Fredes)- but none mustered sufficient support to displace the existing name. "

― Bill Bryson , Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

4 " speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks. "

― Margaret Atwood , Surfacing

5 " Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely? "

― Laura Anderson Kurk , Glass Girl

6 " Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival.

Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again. "

― Carl Sagan , Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

7 " There is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent about standing in this hurricane of questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust it takes to whisper just one of them out loud "

― Rachel Held Evans , Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

8 " With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak." What will you do if I surrender?" he asked." Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon." And if I don't surrender?" " I'll eat you just the same. "

9 " Have a seat with me,” Caine said, hopping down from the wall. “How have you been, Taylor?”
“Life’s one big party,” she said.
He laughed appreciatively at her joke. “Things must be pretty bad for Edilio to send for me, huh?”
“Things are always pretty bad,” she said. “We’re at a new level of bad. I saw those bugs.”
Caine mustered all his sincerity. “I have to go and fight these creatures. But I don’t know much about them.”
Taylor told him what she knew. Caine felt some of his confidence drain away as she laid out the facts in gruesome detail and with complete conviction.
“Well, this should be fun,” Diana said dryly. “I’m so glad we came back. "

― Michael Grant , Plague (Gone, #4)

10 " When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary. "

11 " When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' "

12 " Back in school, there was this guy who had a huge crush on me. One day, when he mustered the courage to propose to me on a Rose Day, my friends burst out laughing right in front of him. I'm sure we all have had such experiences, and I've had crushes in the past. Right now, all I can think about is my films and deliver my best. "