Quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart

Trenton Lee Stewart

‘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

Average

Awful

Boys

And please don’t call me that.” I didn’t call you ‘that’, I called you George Washington.

Call Me

Mysterious Benedict Society

Please

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.

Might

Paper

Rocks

But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!” said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. “And if you continue in this vein, I’m afraid we’ll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests – indefinitely and without reward – and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

Character

Cutting

Guests

Everything is as it should be.

Should

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!

Grief

Majesty

Queens

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

Apples

Poison

Teeth

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.

Mind

Thinking

Writing

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Adventure

Possibility

Way

I’ve only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

May

Priorities

Surprise

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Apples

Average

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Beautiful

Book

Boys

Call Me

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Children

Clever

Cry

Cutting

Done

Eye

Firsts

Fleeting

Giants

Giving

Grief

Guests

Hair

Hard Work

Important

Laughter

Lost

Love

Majesty

May

Might

Mind

Mysterious Benedict Society

Names

Needs

Opinion

Paper

Perfect

Personal Opinions

Personality

Please

Poison

Poor

Possibility

Powerful

Priorities

Queens

Quiet

Real

Rocks

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Quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart

Trenton Lee Stewart

‘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

And please don’t call me that.” I didn’t call you ‘that’, I called you George Washington.

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.

Everything is as it should be.

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!

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

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.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

I’ve only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

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