“Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
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A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book has won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters, Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe, embark on a journey through space and time, from universe to universe, as they endeavor to save the Murrys' father and the world. The novel offers a glimpse into the battles between light and darkness, and goodness and evil, as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey. The novel wrestles with questions of spirituality and purpose, as the characters are often thrown into conflicts of love, divinity, and goodness. It is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet, which follows the Murrys and Calvin O'Keefe.
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
Variant: 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.
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“No! andare not the same thing at all!”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
Variant: Like and equal are not the same thing at all.
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“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
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“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
Mrs Whatsit, Ch. 1
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“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
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“If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
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“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
The Expanding Universe (1963)
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Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
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