“I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me.
—Connor Kane”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“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. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“Branwell told a cruel lie in silence.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“She thanked me again and then said, ''Some people say 'God is in the details.' Others say it's the Devil.'' Margaret replied, 'Maybe it depends on who's reporting the details.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“I am truly anxious to get on with my life.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
“Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, quote from Silent to the Bone
E.L. Konigsburg
Born place: in New York, The United States
Born date February 10, 1930
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“You asked me in Paris how many women I'd loved. I said one. I should have said two." He cupped her cheek, his thumb rubbing over her bottom lip. "As a child I loved my mother, and as a man I love you.”
― Kitty French, quote from Knight & Stay
“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people who need poetry, by a private anthology, both of those automatically absorbed and of poems consciously chosen and memorized as though one were stocking up for a desert island or for a stretch of solitary.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, quote from A Time of Gifts
“I don't really care whether I live that long or not, It's just that when I die, I dont want to leave any enemies, and I figure the only way to do that is to outlive them all.”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“The Doc. Virginia and Simon had told me that Dr. Dale was my doctor. I have a fuzzy recollection of walking up to some doctor-looking person and being totally absorbed by his gold tie clip. I suspected it was the button to end the world so I didn't touch it. I'm pretty sure it was Dr. Dale. I don't know who else would be so tasteless as to walk around a mental hospital wearing the button to end the world.”
― Mark Vonnegut, quote from The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
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