It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

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.

People are more than just the way they look.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Believing takes practice.

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

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

In my heart, I know I'm just as talented as some of my idols.

Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.