95 Quotes by E.L. Konigsburg

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won’t risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?” And Grandpa Nate answered, “Why don’t you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

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

If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don’t really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.

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.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

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

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.