Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes - Page 2

• She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

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  Children, Names, Important

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• Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

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  Poor, Lost, Said

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• I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

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  Orphan, Prisoner, Dilemma

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• Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

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  Knowing, Childhood, Forever

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• You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

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  Children, Mysterious Benedict Society, Knows

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• Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

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  Clever, Tests, Firsts

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• I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

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  Priorities, May, Surprise

  Trenton Lee Stewart (2014). “The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma”, p.87, Chicken House

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• In other words, you are our last possible hope. You are our only hope.

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  Dura

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• Remember the White Knight.

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  Knights, White, Remember

  Trenton Lee Stewart (2014). “The Mysterious Benedict Society”, p.197, Chicken House

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• She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

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  Hair, Yellow, Giants

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• Everything is as it should be.

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  Debería

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• 'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

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  Boys, Average, Awful

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• Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

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  Queens, Grief, Majesty

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• But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

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  Character, Cutting, Guests

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• Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

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  Journey, Curtains

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• Children are capable of such open rudeness.

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  Children, Rudeness, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

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  Character, Dull, Vulnerability

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• Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

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  Thinker, Mysterious Benedict Society, Journal

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• The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

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  Missing, Departed, Mind

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• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

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  Apples, Teeth, Poison

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• ¿Por qué, entonces, crees que podría haberlo hecho el jugador blanco?". Reynie reflexionó. Se imaginó a sí mismo sacando su caballo sólo para devolverlo al punto de partida. ¿Por qué iba a hacer algo así? Al final dijo: "Quizá porque dudaba de sí mismo.

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  Movimiento, Jugador, Pensamiento

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• Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

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  Mysterious, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

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  Rejected, Mysterious Benedict Society, Felt

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• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

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  Men, Thinking, Guy

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• No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

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  People, Adults, Purpose

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