Reynie's Quotes

#1. 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?

Trenton Lee Stewart

#2. Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

Suze Orman

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. He could think no longer; he leaned against his shadow. The silence within the slab of ancient stone eased through him; his thoughts, worn meaningless, became quiet again.

Patricia A. McKillip

#7. 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.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#8. The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.

Linda Blair

#9. 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.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#10. It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Katherine Anne Porter

#11. They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence.

Flor Hernandez

#12. And so I just grieve, groaning,
'Let me not go
To the Place of the Shorn:
My heart is now precious ...
For I, I am a poet
And my flower is golden.

David Bowles

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#14. If something's worth having, it's worth working for.

Isabelle Rae

#15. The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)

Jay Payleitner

#16. Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?"
Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said, "Perhaps because he doubted himself.

Trenton Lee Stewart