Quotes by E. L. Konigsburg

E. L. Konigsburg

…just because I don’t have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn’t mean that I’m not a witch. I’m a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

Halloween

Mean

Silly

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

Letters

Rejection

Sarcastic

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Daughter

Fun

Mother

Biding one’s time is a very different thing from patience.

Different

Different Things

Waiting

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.

Black

Dark

Sweet

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.

Cupcakes

Home

Running

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

Beer

Jobs

Men

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.

Doe

Want

Waste

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Fifteen

Minutes

Planning

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

Apples

Eating

School

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Absence

Adventure

Apples

Beer

Black

Book

Bridges

Character

Children

Conversation

Cupcakes

Dark

Daughter

Differences

Different

Different Things

Doe

Drivers

Earth

Eating

Eggs

Fifteen

Fool

Friendly

Fun

Goal

Grandpa

Halloween

Happiness

Happy

Home

Hurt

Inaction

Inspirational

Invisible

Jobs

Journey

Letters

Life

Light

Littles

Long

Long Conversations

Love

Lying

Making Love

Mean

Men

Mets

Minutes

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Quotes by E. L. Konigsburg

E. L. Konigsburg

…just because I don’t have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn’t mean that I’m not a witch. I’m a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Biding one’s time is a very different thing from patience.

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.

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

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.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

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