From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

by E.L. Konigsburg

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.”

But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

“Well, Claude, we just traded safety for adventure.

My travel motto 😄