Trenton Lee Stewart
Trenton Lee Stewart
Trenton Lee Stewartis an American author best known for the Mysterious Benedict Society series. Stewart is a graduate of Hendrix College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Little Rock, AR...
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children real sacrifice
Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.
rejected mysterious-benedict-society felt
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?
character dull vulnerability
I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.
powerful ambition personality
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.
hard-work writing stories
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.
thinker mysterious-benedict-society journal
Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.
names trying failing
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.
fleeting want cry
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?
laughter what-is-life
What is life without laughter?
book eye house
You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.
orphan prisoner dilemma
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
mysterious mysterious-benedict-society
Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society
school two giving
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
journey curtains
Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey