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121 " Finding a secret can make everything else unimportant, you know. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
122 " (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.) "
123 " (D)on't seek great reviews from small minds. They have neither the character nor the vocabulary for them. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , Up from Jericho Tel
124 " They waited for miles and miles of time "
125 " I never really look past my eyes. That way I always feel pretty. Windows of the soul, you know. "
126 " Nouilles et fromage en casserole,” Parks answered. Claudia showed interest. “I’ll have some, please. Sounds like something special.” Parks served. Claudia looked down at her plate, looked up at me and moaned, “Why, it’s nothing but macaroni and cheese. "
127 " Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It’s the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don’t pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home. "
128 " I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It’s hollow. "
129 " You must think of those six steps not as a preparation for the beginning, but as the beginning itself "
― E.L. Konigsburg