95 Quotes by E.L. Konigsburg

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.

He stopped thinking “why pick on me?” and started thinking “I am chosen.

Finding a secret can make everything else unimportant, you know.

I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Sixth graders had stopped asking “Now what?” and had started asking “So what?” She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

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.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

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.

Angel” became part of Claudia’s story about finding herself, about how the greatest adventure lies not in running away but in looking inside, and the greatest discovery is not in finding out who made a statue but in finding out what makes you.