"Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for……" — Trenton Lee Stewart
"Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran."
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55 Quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things,…
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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else…
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Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
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Children are capable of such open rudeness.
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You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of…
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Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
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The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded,
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Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison…
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Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?'…
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Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his…
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Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.
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