Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes
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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.
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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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Everything is as it should be.
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Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey
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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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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?