The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Quotes

“Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“Uncle had learned long ago that obeying a rule in fact but not in spirit was very hard on people who say we for I and who do not allow dogs on their premises.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“Jake knew that his mother had a tendency to mistake rules, her rules, for principles. She did not bend because she did not have enough confidence to know when or how far. She did not listen well because one ear was always otherwise engaged - either listening to what she herself had just said or what she would say next.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“I prefer not to.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place