138 Quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart

It’s natural that you feel as you do, Reynie. There is much more to the world than most children – indeed, most adults – ever see or know. And where most people see mirrors, you, my friend, see windows. By which I mean there is always something beyond the glass.

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.

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.

The missing aren’t missing, they’re only departed.

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.

It would be years before it was operating the way a proper city should – which is to say, messily, but more or less freely and honestly, with its citizens accountable to one another and to those they’ve chosen to represent them, rather than to entities, spectral or otherwise, whose own interests are not in the interest of the people.

The gym is always open, except when it’s closed.

For every exit, there is also an entrance.

Jack just needed to play his cards right. What was it Penny had said? The Meyers would be incomparable poker players, if only they gambled. Well, Jack was gambling, all right. Reuben could only hope he was good enough.