95 Quotes by E.L. Konigsburg

Next to any kind of elegance, Claudia loved good clean smells.

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.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That’s the hardest thing to find.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Even after more than five hundred years in Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine still missed quarreling and dressing up. Eleanor missed strong, sweet smells. Eleanor missed feeling hot and being cold. Eleanor missed Henry. She missed life.

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

Having words and explanations for things is too modern.

True simplicity is elegant.

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 and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.