Literature Guide Quotes

“Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Literature Guide: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“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, Literature Guide: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“Both Jamie and Claudia had acquired a talent for being near but never part of a group. (Some people, Saxonberg, never learn to do that all their lives, and some learn it all too well.)”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Literature Guide: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler