A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)

by Madeleine L'Engle

“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.”

people are more than just the way they look.

“Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth,

She wanted to reach out and grab Calvin’s hand, but it seemed that ever since they had begun their journeyings she had been looking for a hand to hold, so she stuffed her fists into her pockets and walked along behind the two boys.—I’ve got to be brave, she said to herself.—I will be.

A feminist

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,

“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.”

but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.