quotes by 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 (From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler)

"Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender"
— E.L. Konigsburg (The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World)

"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."
— E.L. Konigsburg

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

"Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.""
— E.L. Konigsburg (Up From Jericho Tel)

"Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere."
— E.L. Konigsburg (From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler)

"Going to school- picking an apple
Getting an education- eating it"
— E.L. Konigsburg (Up From Jericho Tel)

"Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy."
— E.L. Konigsburg (Silent to the Bone)

"But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind."
— E.L. Konigsburg