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41 " I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , Silent to the Bone
42 " Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
43 " Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents. "
44 " 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
45 " 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. "
46 " I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over ... green so new that it was kissing yellow. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
47 " There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
48 " I prefer not to. "
49 " ...loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason. "
50 " She thanked me again and then said, ''Some people say 'God is in the details.' Others say it's the Devil.'' Margaret replied, 'Maybe it depends on who's reporting the details. "
51 " Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. "
52 " Branwell told a cruel lie in silence. "
53 " 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. "
54 " Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The art part is in knowing when, and the whole process only works when no one is keeping track. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
55 " Oh, well,' Mrs. Zender continued, 'Mother always said that Mr. Zender had other talents. He was good looking, and I think Mother put looking good right up there with the harpsichord, an instrument that has limited performance time and requires a great deal of maintenance. "
56 " Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , The View from Saturday
57 " I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal. "
58 " A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend. "
59 " Becoming a team didn’t mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it caring. You could even call it love. "
60 " The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling. "