Top 97 Trenton's Quotes
#1. No, I like it ... a lot ... but that's a helluva tattoo for a virgin."
He popped the pen back in, freeing up his hand to move the mouse.
I smirked. "If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right."
The pen fell from Trenton's mount to the floor.
Jamie McGuire
#2. If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right." The pen fell from Trenton's mouth to the floor, and he bent down to pick it up. "Uh . . . any, uh . . . any special font?
Jamie McGuire
#4. You know what I hate?" I asked.
Trenton had desperation in his eyes. "Me. I know. I just ... I'm a selfish, insecure idiot."
"Yes.
Jamie McGuire
#5. I said no strippers, I said, watching dumbfounded as Trenton danced around the room to Britney Spears.
Jamie McGuire
#6. I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#7. I want love and I won't settle for less
Sylvia Day
#8. I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.
Joe Piscopo
#9. Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#10. Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!"
"Who's Madge?" Sticky asked.
"Her Majesty the Queen!
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#13. Isobel moved farther into the kitchen, not knowing whether to be relieved that her mother hadn't had an atomic meltdown, or mortified that she'd taken it upon herself to play head chef with the nearest thing Trenton High had to a Dark Lord.
Kelly Creagh
#14. The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what it means. What are you talking about!!"
"I didn't know how boats this big work, alright.
Trenton Oldfield
#15. Pleasure is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize that it is their master. Once they are enslaved to pleasure, it deceives them into believing that they control their own lives.
Erika Mathews
#16. So how you're gonna play this?" Trenton asked.
"Divide and conquer."
"Divide what?"
"His head from the rest of his body."
Trenton nodded quickly. "Good plan.
Jamie McGuire
#18. I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass
"You told them?" I asked Trenton, my voice broken.
Trenton nodded.
I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.
Jamie McGuire
#21. The victory at Trenton boosted morale among the troops, the Congress, and the people to a degree possibly unwarranted by winning back a town in New Jersey, what with it being a town in New Jersey.
Sarah Vowell
#22. 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
#23. As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry
Joyce Carol Oates
#24. He'll make it beautiful, won't you?" I asked.Trenton turned on the machine, and then looked at me with a soft expression. "You're already beautiful.
Jamie McGuire
#25. Or your arms," Trenton added. "Because if you ever talk to her with anything less than a respectful tone again, I will rip those fuckers off and beat you with 'em. Do we understand each other?
Jamie McGuire
#27. What can I say about Trenton? A sad sprout of a human being, halfway between a boy and a broccoli.
Lauren Oliver
#28. Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
#29. In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from losing ourselves to our situations.
Trenton Quinn
#30. No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#31. Trenton raked the strands of hair away from my face and out of my eyes, My entire body was overwhelmed by the most wonderful intensity. It enveloped me, and I cried out as it traveled like electricity throughout my body.
"Goddamn, keep making that sound," he said, breathless.
Jamie McGuire
#32. 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
#34. They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#35. [Stephanie] That's not the point. I can't just let monkeys loose in Trenton.
[Lula] Why not? There's all kinds of crazy shit loose in Trenton.
Janet Evanovich
#36. I wanted to go to Sesame Street! I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to Sesame Street, and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#37. 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?
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#39. I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#41. Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
#42. The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can't see you do it and what kind of responsibility do you have when you can do it. What kind of good things can you do or can you do good things from being invisible in this way?
Trenton Lee Stewart
#43. Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#46. Grow the lawn and mow the lawn
always keep the TV on,
brush your teeth and kill the germs,
poison apples, poison worms.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#47. 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
#49. Trenton," Nick said patiently, "it is simple: your pizzle, her quim, you both enjoy each other until you can't move. Nothing simpler. You have three children, for pity's sake, need I draw you diagrams?
Grace Burrowes
#50. Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding
Lauren Kate
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. There was a unique pleasure in knowing a friend so well, Reynie reflected, rather like sharing a secret code.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#61. Go on, Kate. I don't want to have fallen four stories for nothing. - Milligan
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#62. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#63. 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
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers
Alan Mitchell
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
Trenton Lee Stewart
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.
Janet Evanovich
#77. 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
#79. At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#80. The missing aren't missing, they're only departed,
All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded,
Trenton Lee Stewart
#81. And please don't call me that.
I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#82. And then I saw the worst thing I'd ever seen
in my life: Trenton in a man thong,
covered in about ten pounds of body
glitter. He had on a cheap, yellow wig,
and Cami was laughing her head off,
cheering him on.
Jamie McGuire
#83. Don't turn your back on what you love because you're scared
Lauren Kate
#84. ... I see that something's are hard to do, but that you can't live with yourself if you don't do them. I see that the best way to help myself is to help the people I care about. The rest will sort itself out. It has to, right?
Trenton Lee Stewart
#85. When the time comes to face McCracken, I don't want you anywhere near."
"I agree with Milligan!" Sticky whispered.
Milligan winked at him and quickly ushered the children back to the double doors.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#86. I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
Janet Evanovich
#87. You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#88. She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#89. So began one of the fiercest and strangest battles ever fought, a battle that involved all manner of business supplies, elegant clothing and accessories, and no shortage of trickery and taunts.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#90. 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.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#91. Au contraire..."
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey
Trenton Lee Stewart
#92. I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
#93. '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
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society
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