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Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy. — E.L. Konigsburg

Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications. — E.L. Konigsburg

I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper. — E.L. Konigsburg

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. — E.L. Konigsburg

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it. — E.L. Konigsburg

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier. — E.L. Konigsburg

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver. — E.L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character. — E.L. Konigsburg

After Margaret moved to Florida they continued to stay in touch in a Christmas card/life-milestone way. — E.L. Konigsburg

We'll walk from here to the — E.L. Konigsburg

I am truly anxious to get on with my life. — E.L. Konigsburg

How dare he fall in love with his own wife! -Salai — E.L. Konigsburg

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher. — E.L. Konigsburg

Sixth graders had stopped asking "Now what?" and had started asking "So what?" She had not been sorry to retire when she did. — E.L. Konigsburg

Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using. — E.L. Konigsburg

I've been the oldest child since before you were born — E.L. Konigsburg

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. — E.L. Konigsburg

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry. — E.L. Konigsburg

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me.
- Connor Kane — E.L. Konigsburg

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts. — E.L. Konigsburg

Loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason. — E.L. Konigsburg

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that. — E.L. Konigsburg

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves. — E.L. Konigsburg

...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia — E.L. Konigsburg

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes. — E.L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it — E.L. Konigsburg

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad? — E.L. Konigsburg

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind. — E.L. Konigsburg

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain. — E.L. Konigsburg

Having words and explanations for things is too modern — E.L. Konigsburg

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space
it makes connections. — E.L. Konigsburg

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. — E.L. Konigsburg

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible. - Mrs. Zender — E.L. Konigsburg

I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read. — E.L. Konigsburg

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says between you and I. — E.L. Konigsburg

Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary. — E.L. Konigsburg

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things. — E.L. Konigsburg

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested. — E.L. Konigsburg

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair. — E.L. Konigsburg

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof. — E.L. Konigsburg

Branwell told a cruel lie in silence. — E.L. Konigsburg

Parke-Bernet Galleries. — E.L. Konigsburg

The eyes are the windows of the soul ... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see? — E.L. Konigsburg

I prefer not to. — E.L. Konigsburg

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart. — E.L. Konigsburg

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver. — E.L. Konigsburg

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else. — E.L. Konigsburg

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find. — E.L. Konigsburg

There's something nice and safe about having money. — E.L. Konigsburg

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking. — E.L. Konigsburg

Indecisiveness wears a person out. — E.L. Konigsburg

Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world. — E.L. Konigsburg

True simplicity is elegant. — E.L. Konigsburg

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe. — E.L. Konigsburg

How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence. — E.L. Konigsburg

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience. — E.L. Konigsburg

Jennifer," I asked, "what do you ever do besides read?"
She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, "I think. — E.L. Konigsburg