Quotes From "From The Mixedup Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler" By E.L. Konigsburg

I've been the oldest child since before you were born
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I've been the oldest child since before you were born E.L. Konigsburg
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place,...
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. E.L. Konigsburg
...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
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...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia E.L. Konigsburg
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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 of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you 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. E.L. Konigsburg
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But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that. E.L. Konigsburg
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Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts. E.L. Konigsburg