The 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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#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.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#7. I decided to make memorizing a part of my daily routine. Like flossing. Except I was actually going to do it.

Joshua Foer

#8. 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.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#10. Love isn't always what we want, but it's always what we need.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#11. No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Marquis De Sade

#12. I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.

Jason Aldean

#13. 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

#14. Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that.

Roger Deakins

#15. One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

Jon Postel

#16. How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers.

A.W. Tozer

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

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

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#19. I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night.

Michelle Mone

#20. No one really knows what words mean these days.

Mark Doten

#21. Apple has a passion to deliver the most amazing, innovative - and, in fact, I got criticized because in "Win," there are at least 10 references to what Steve Jobs has done, and Apple's done, in that my editor said it's too much. But Apple is a passionate company.

Frank Luntz

#22. He is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.

Ann Brashares