A Wrinkle In Time Quotes
"The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a fingerprint and as universal as an open hand."
"If you don't manage to do a little better you'll have to stay back next year."
"Why do you think we have wars at home? Because they all live their own separate individual lives."
"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you."
"I just got caught in a down draft and blown off course."
"The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing."
"Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable."
"I need fuel so I can sort things out and assimilate them properly."
"I'm glad we've met now, Meg. We're going to be friends, you know."
"You don’t know how lucky you are to be loved."
"Maybe that’s why our visitor last night didn’t surprise me. Because of Charles Wallace."
"Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist."
"If you want to help your father then you must learn patience."
"Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth."
"Do you think we would have brought you here if there were no hope?"
"Explanations are not easy when they are about things for which your civilization still has no words."
"If a very small insect were to move from one section to another, it would be a long walk for him if he had to walk straight across."
"We travel in the fifth dimension. This is something you can understand, Meg. Don’t be afraid to try."
"To put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."
"All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it's a grand and exciting battle."
"Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers."
"You'll know him! Of course you'll know him! The way you'd know me even without looking because I'm always there for you, you can always reach in—"
"I’ve got another feeling. Not the same kind, a different one, a feeling that if we go into that building we’re going into terrible danger."
"She told us to stay together. She told us not to go off by ourselves."
"There is nothing to fear except fear itself."
"We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear."
"I wish he wouldn’t act so sure of himself, Meg thought, looking anxiously at Charles and holding his hand more and more tightly until he wriggled his fingers in protest. That’s what Mrs Whatsit said he had to watch, being proud."
"Just relax and don’t fight and it will all be much easier for you."
"The spoken word is one of the triumphs of man."
"But nobody’s ever happy, either," Meg said earnestly. "Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy."
"We’ve been all wrong, I told you; we haven’t understood. We’ve been fighting our friend, and Father’s friend."
"If you feel the need of a father, then I would suggest that you turn to IT."
"The only reason we are here is because we think our father is here. Can you tell us where to find him?"
"The silence was filled with the words he was thinking and would not speak out loud to his daughter."
"She seemed utterly alone, the silence and darkness impenetrable forever."
"She knew that she was safe as long as she was in his arms."
"Father will make it all right, Meg thought. Everything will be all right now."
"But the pain was over now and her body was lapped in comfort."
"We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing."
"We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal."
"While she had been in Aunt Beast’s arms Meg had felt safe and secure. Now her worries about Charles Wallace and her disappointment in her father’s human fallibility rose like gorge in her throat."
"Our friends here," he continued, "feel that it was only the fact that I still wore the glasses your Mrs Who gave you that kept me within this solar system."
"Sometimes we can’t know what spiritual damage it leaves even when physical recovery is complete."
"Love. That was what she had that IT did not have."
"I learned about mankind from Hendrik Willem van Loon; I traveled with Dr. Dolittle, created by a man I called Hug Lofting."
"I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religious order."
"Unless a writer works constantly to improve and refine the tools of his trade, they will be useless instruments if and when the moment of inspiration, of revelation, does come."
"A writer of fantasy, fairy tale, or myth must inevitably discover that he is not writing out of his own knowledge or experience, but out of something both deeper and wider."
"Very few children have any problem with the world of the imagination; it’s their own world, the world of their daily life, and it’s our loss that so many of us grow out of it."
"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."