K M K Trenton Quotes

#1. Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#2. Everything is as it should be.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#4. '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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#5. My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

Samuel Alito

#6. I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#7. 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.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#10. You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#11. And when I do crave privacy, I have only to flip the "Closed" sign on my shop door until I'm feeling sociable again. Everyone should have such signs on their doors, don't you think?

Trenton Lee Stewart

#12. I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

Janet Evanovich

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#14. Enter at the exit

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#16. You're really going to cut me out of your life because of one fucking kiss?"
"Was that all it was?" I asked.
Trenton fell quiet.
"That's what I thought." I hit End again.

Jamie McGuire

#17. I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#18. There was a unique pleasure in knowing a friend so well, Reynie reflected, rather like sharing a secret code.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#20. Go on, Kate. I don't want to have fallen four stories for nothing. - Milligan

Trenton Lee Stewart

#21. Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding

Lauren Kate

#22. For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

Avi

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#24. A lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#25. Kate laid her hand against his cheek. "Why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep getting hurt?"
"Bad habit," Milligan mumbled.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#26. I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.

A.S. King

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#28. born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers

Alan Mitchell

#29. Are you saying you don't approve of my attire?" Trenton began to speak, but I put my finger against his lips. "Aw, that's cute. You thought I was really asking.

Jamie McGuire

#30. I don't mean to be critical of the Trenton police," I said, "but wouldn't you think someone could catch this goddamn rabbit? He's riding around, handing out photos.

Janet Evanovich