Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes Quotes

“Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“A boy your age should know better than to consider anything impossible.” (p 62)”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“...I have called you forth not because of what you may become, but because of what you already are.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“There is something wonderful that happens between true friends.When they find themselves no longer wasting time with meaningless chatter.Instead, they become content just to share each other's company. It is the opinion of some that this sort of friendship is the only kind worth having. While jokes and anecdotes are nice, they do not compare with the beauty of shared solitude.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“It was a choice between comfortable misery and terrifying uncertainty… professor Cake had given him a choice – a gift that no one had ever offered him before” 68”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“The start of any journey-whether pilgrimage or promenade-is one of life's true joys.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“it is a well-known fact that brawling begets friendship.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“he started with the rascal's questions.
Where was he?
dangling fifty feat above ground choking to death
Were there friends near by?
He could hear his sister strugling by the stairs, but she was too far to help
Were there weapons nearby?
His fishhook was lying useless on the ground below, leaving him only his hands.
But his were no ordinary hands.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“There are times when being a leader is less about having the right answer than about having an answer.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“But I guess it found you"
"About that," Peter said trying to ignore the slight. "Why send a riddle? You could have saved us a lot of trouble if you'd written something less complicated."
"It wasn't that complicated," she muttered.
"Yeah!" Scrape added. "And how was she suppose to know it'd end up in the hands of some blind dummy and his ugly pet?"
sir tode, who up to this point had been listening quietly, had evidently had enough. "I've had enough," he said, leaping to his hooves. "I'm a fierce knight, known to the world over slaying dragons. Who among you can boast such a feat? And this 'blind dummy' just happens to be the legendary Peter Nimble... the greatest theif who ever lived.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“Peter stood back up. 'Well, that was a perfectly useless conversation,' he said with a sigh. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called 'foresight.' It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“There are some times when a person is in such dire straits that they are able to achieve the impossible - less by their own strength than by a strength that moves through them.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“In my experience, heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash. Who better fits that description than the great Peter Nimble?”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“As you know, children (unlike grown-ups) are far too clever to be tricked by impostors - a fact that goes a long way toward explaining their distrust of wicked stepmothers and substitute teachers.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“The bigger the scar the better the story.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“The start of any journey - whether pilgrimage or promenade - is one of life's true joys. Every moment is charged with an excitement about things to come. Obstacles and complications are seen not as discouragement, but as seasoning that only improves the flavor of one's adventure.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“What is your name?” “Alistair,”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one, and the limits of the duo's patience were tried more than once as they slalomed between squalls, broke through blizzards, and drifted across doldrums.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“You may have observed in your own lives that there is a great power in storytelling. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“prisoners”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“While adults can be intimidated and deceived, a child’s constitution is made from far stronger stuff.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“It’s no job for a blind person. Do”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“prefer nights myself—the world takes on greater dimensions when obscured by shadow.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“much prefer the witching hours, and with”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“wicked stepmothers and substitute teachers.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes