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.
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. - 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
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections. - E. L. Konigsburg
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unpl… - E. L. Konigsburg
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unpl…
Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy. - E. L. Konigsburg
Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.
Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience. - E. L. Konigsburg
Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
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 a… - E. L. Konigsburg
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 a…
When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else. - E. L. Konigsburg
When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. - E. L. Konigsburg
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver. - E. L. Konigsburg
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.
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