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• At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

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  Rocks, Paper, Might

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

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  Poor, Lost, Said

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• She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

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  Children, Names, Important

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• I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

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  Orphan, Prisoner, Dilemma

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• Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

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  Knowing, Childhood, Forever

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• You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

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  Children, Mysterious Benedict Society, Knows

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• Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

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  Clever, Tests, Firsts

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

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  Priorities, May, Surprise

  Trenton Lee Stewart (2014). “The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma”, p.87, Chicken House

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• Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

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  Rejected, Mysterious Benedict Society, Felt

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• Children are capable of such open rudeness.

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  Children, Rudeness, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

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  People, Adults, Purpose

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• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

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  Men, Thinking, Guy

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• 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.

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  Children, Real, Sacrifice

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• I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

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  Character, Dull, Vulnerability

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• Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

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  Queens, Grief, Majesty

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• Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

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  Thinker, Mysterious Benedict Society, Journal

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• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

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  Apples, Teeth, Poison

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• The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

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  Missing, Departed, Mind

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• Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.

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  Moving, Player, Thinking

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

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  Gym, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. "You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name?

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  Team, Winning, Names

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• 'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

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  Boys, Average, Awful

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• But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

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  Character, Cutting, Guests

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• 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.

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  Hair, Yellow, Giants

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• They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

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  Night, Shadow, Window

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