E.L. Konigsburg

"Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one."

"Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find."

"Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver."

"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 and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."