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“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.
“When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can’t explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn’t happen very often. But I obey it.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.”
“Anndd wee mussttn’tt looose ourr sensses of hummorr,” Mrs Which said. “Thee onnlly wway ttoo ccope withh ssometthingg ddeadly sseriouss iss ttoo ttry ttoo trreatt itt a llittlle lligghtly.”
What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?
But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.
“Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.”
Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.”
“Only a fool is not afraid,”
on Camazotz individuals have been done away with. Camazotz is ONE mind. It’s IT. And that’s why everybody’s so happy and efficient.
You mean terrified?
“Nobody suffers here,” Charles intoned. “Nobody is ever unhappy.” “But nobody’s ever happy, either,” Meg said earnestly. “Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.
Like and equal are two entirely different things.
“Tell me,” the beast said. “What do you suppose you’d do if three of us suddenly arrived on your home planet.” “Shoot you, I guess,” Calvin admitted. “Then isn’t that what we should do with you?” Calvin’s freckles seemed to deepen, but he answered quietly. “I’d really rather you didn’t.
But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,
“We want nothing from you that you do without grace,” Mrs Whatsit said, “or that you do without understanding.”
The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
“May the right prevail.”
Yyou hhave ssomethinngg thatt ITT hhass nnott. Thiss ssomethinngg iss yyourr onlly wweapponn. Bbutt yyou mmusstt ffinndd itt fforr yyourrssellff.”
Mrs Whatsit loves me. That’s quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.
