Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

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

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

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

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

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

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

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

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

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

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

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

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!

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

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

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

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

Everything is as it should be.

Remember the White Knight.

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.

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

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

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

What is life without laughter?

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed

It's not going to be over until we say so.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .” “Dead mice?” Reynie suggested. “Perfect, ” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.