Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes
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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
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Everything is as it should be.
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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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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
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Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey
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In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.
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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?