138 Quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

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.

In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.

You're a fresh one, Nick.' ~ John Cole

Strange as it might seem, it made Reuben feel closer to his mom, and he was sure she felt the same way, though they’d never discussed it. Talking about it might ruin the effect.

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

Out from behind the desk where he’d been sitting, hidden by the piles of books, appeared a bespectacled, green-eyed man in a green plaid suit. His thick white hair was shaggy and mussed, his nose was rather large and lumpy like a vegetable, and although it was clear he had recently shaved, he appeared to have done so without benefit of a mirror, for here and there upon his neck and chin were nicks from a razor, and occasional white whiskers that he’d missed altogether. This was Mr. Benedict.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

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