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Conformity knows no time or place; it is the struggle all of us face, to be ourselves despite the overwhelming pressure to be like everyone else.
when Mrs Whatsit tells the children that 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. What you say is completely up to you.
watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground.
“You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,
one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.
“You don’t have to take everything so personally. Use a happy medium
“A change in gene,” Charles Wallace quoted, “resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring
Do you know what compulsion means?” “Constraint. Obligation. Because one is compelled
“I must remember I’m preconditioned in my concept of your mentality.
Auf frischer Tat ertappt. German. In flagrante delicto. Latin. Caught in the act. English.
Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. Seneca. Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable
Justitiae soror fides. Latin again, of course. Faith is the sister of justice
“What’s a megaparsec?” Calvin asked. “One of Father’s nicknames for me,” Meg said. “It’s also 3.26 million light years.” “What’s E = mc2?” “Einstein’s equation.” “What’s E stand for?” “Energy.” “m?” “Mass.” “c2?” “The square of the velocity of light in centimeters per second.
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we’re not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.” “I like to understand things,” Meg said. “We all do. But it isn’t always possible.
a willing suspension of disbelief.
Come t’è picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
Un asno viejo sabe más que un potro. A. Perez. An old ass knows more than a young colt.
“When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain,
Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis,” Mrs Who intoned. “Horace. To action little, less to words inclined.
Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one’s life for the truth. That is what we must do.
Das Werk lobt den Meister. German. The work proves the craftsman
“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.
“What is the first dimension?” “Well—a line:——————”
And the second dimension?” “Well, you’d square the line. A flat square would be in the second dimension.
“And the third?” “Well, you’d square the second dimension. Then the square wouldn’t be flat anymore. It would hav...
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“And the fourth?” “Well, I guess if you want to put it into mathematical terms ...
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for the fifth dimension you’d square the fourth,
to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” She smiled broadly. “Prospero in The Tempest
. . . For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr’d commands, Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain. . . . Shakespeare. The Tempest.
Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir bewisst. Goethe. I do not know everything; still many things I understand
Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
“There is nothing to fear except fear itself,
“On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems.
“I’m different, and I like being different.
Like and equal are two entirely different things.
