Jonathan Auxier

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“A boy your age should know better than to consider anything impossible.” (p 62)”

“...I have called you forth not because of what you may become, but because of what you already are.”

“The start of any journey-whether pilgrimage or promenade-is one of life's true joys.”

“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.”

“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.”