Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time Quotes
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. - Mrs. Whatsit
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast
It was a star, " Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, " Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?