Quotes from book

A Wrinkle in Time

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”

“Alike and Equal are not the same.”

“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 that are not seen are eternal.”

“No! andare not the same thing at all!”

“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”

“I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”

“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”

“Wild nights are my glory!”

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”

“We do not know what things look like.
We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing. -Aunt Beast”

“If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.”

“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”

“Only a fool is not afraid.”

“Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?”

“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.”

“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

“I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.”

“They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space."
"Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”

“It was a dark and stormy night.”