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. KonigsburgBecause way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
E.L. KonigsburgFinish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.
E.L. KonigsburgBefore you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
E.L. KonigsburgTags: be-yourself self-discovery
How dare he fall in love with his own wife! -Salai
E.L. KonigsburgUncle 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.
E.L. KonigsburgJake 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.
E.L. KonigsburgEvery now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
E.L. KonigsburgThey 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. KonigsburgThe eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?
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