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“He staggered through the hall and out the Door.

"My Prince?" The Door's wooden face was the picture of distress. "You're not truly going out like that, are you?"

"My Door," Cardan replied, "I most certainly am."

He promptly fell down the front steps.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“Damien did not like being told what to do. He liked even less being told what to do by some shiny-armor-wearing, holy-weapon-wielding, punchable-face-having fuck of a marquis. And to be told what to do by said fuck through the summons of an ignoble guard without an ounce of consideration for his station and an incredibly stupid mustache? Well, that just bloody pissed him off.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

“Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .”
“Dead mice?” Reynie suggested.
“Perfect,” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

“I'm fine. A little pain never hurt anybody, did it?

-Kate”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

“Khakis just make a person look like they’re both pantsless and void of a personality.”
― Emily Henry

“Because of his injured arm, McCracken couldn't carry both the chair and his briefcase down the steep goat path... yet the chair was too heavy for Mr. Curtain, or indeed for any but the strongest of men, to carry that far. McCracken pointed out that Mr. Curtain wouldn't actually be using the wheelchair much, to which Mr. Curtain replied that McCracken didn't use his brain much, either, but still preferred to keep it with him.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

“You know,' (Kate) said to Sticky as they waited... 'I miss those days, don't you? I mean, except for the terrible parts.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

“The fact was that (Reynie had) memorized every letter he'd received these past six months... even the quirky poetry Constance had mailed him, along with whatever curious button, dustbunny, or paper scrap had struck her fancy on her way to find a stamp.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

“And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!"

"Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“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?”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“Why don't we poke around and figure some things out for ourselves right now,' said Kate, who had a passion for poking around.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“Reynie was almost to the dormitory exit before he noticed Constance wasn't with them. They all went back.

Constance stood just outside the boys' room, pointing at a patch of mildew on the ceiling and wrinkling her nose. 'That's disgusting. I mean, that's just nasty. I hate mildew.'

'Um, Constance,' Reynie said, 'we're in a hurry, remember?”
― Trenton Lee Stewart

“[Mr. Benedict] 'Instead of answering the questions on the second test, (Constance) composed a long poem about the absurdity of the test and its rules. Particularly about the missing fourth step, which apparently reminded her of donut holes, because these were the topic of a second poem. She is very irritated, it seems, that every donut contains a hole. She feels she is being robbed. I remember a particularly felicitous rhyme between "flaky bereft" and "bakery theft".”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“Just keep her laughing,” Doug said. “When a woman laughs, her eyes are closed more. She won’t notice how ugly you are.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“What's with him?' Constance asked.
'He has narcolepsy,' said Kate.
'He steals a lot?'
'That's kleptomania,' Sticky said. 'Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.'
'Well I don't like it,' Constance said crossly.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end”
― Julia Nicole Camp

“...it certainly wasn't Cedric's ignorance when he forced her into his bed so she could not back out of their wedding without being publicly ruined. He must have wondered how she had not fallen pregnant yet. Her hand gripped the sachet of herbs tighter, the smell batting up against her memory like a moth singeing itself on a candle. And she wasn't sure if she should thank or curse the gods for oblivious men who needn't be aware such things even existed.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“Blame not one’s failings on cruelty when ignorance is the much more likely cause,”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“And what can I say? That I'm not happy? That I've tried dating someone else and it was the emotional equivalent of bingeing on saltines when all I wanted was a real meal?”
― Emily Henry

“Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“I never understood any of that. I mean, if someone is willing to marry you, to have your child, why would you throw it all away?

-Damien”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“No, love. You're the only one who has caused me to do the oddest things. You have truly poisoned me.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study

“[Vanessa and her dad] And then I cleared the space between us and hugged him. We weren't really an affectionate family. I didn't see the hug coming, and neither did he. But we were both happy to be in it, and for a flicker of a second, I was a little girl again.”
― Abby Jimenez, Life’s Too Short

“I see him laugh but can't hear it, and I feel robbed of the sound.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“(Ben) realized that Severin was going to hurt him worse than he had ever been hurt before. Because he had already set the blade to his chest, had already wrapped this stranger's hand around the hilt. He loved Severin. And he barely knew him.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“(Oak and Suren) had been working against each other for so long, that he forgot how easy it was to work together.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne