She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

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.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

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

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

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

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.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

When you fully focus your mind, you make others attracted to you.

I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.

I never thought I would be impeached.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

Everybody relates to having a dream.

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.

Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.'

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.