Mysterious Benedict Society Quotes

#1. '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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#2. I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

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

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

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#5. The only rule is that there are no rules.

Del Close

#6. The future of the Church is in the hands of wisdom

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.

Donna Brazile

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

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#9. The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.

John C. Maxwell

#10. 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.

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

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#12. There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Tom Courtenay

#13. Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.

Larry McMurtry

#14. Most girls my age don't appreciate this kind of music. In my opinion, this is real music. It's haunting, poetic, and carefully-crafted. Not that techno teeny bopper crap that only sounds good because of all the machines the record label uses to make it.

Lauren Hammond

#15. 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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#16. If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Antoine Rivarol

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

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

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#20. Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Alex Van Halen

#21. We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.

Robert Ludlum