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“but El Rabioso deserves his nickname. If he has to fall, he’d just as soon take the human race with him.”
—Why are we trying to act normal? Meg wondered, but did not speak her thought aloud. But Charles Wallace replied, “It’s sort of like the string holding the package together, Meg. We’d all fall apart otherwise.”
“You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.”
“Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create,” Charles Wallace said. “This fire is to help and heal.”
“That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.”
“Zylle was taught all the ways of a good delivery, and she has the healing gifts. But that, too, would be looked upon as magic. Black magic.” “But it’s not magic—” “No. It is understanding the healing qualities of certain plants and roots. People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs. My father is concerned for Zylle, and for you.”
“Those of us who have been around the galaxies know that such thinking is foolish. It’s always easy to blame others. And I have learned, being with you, that many of my preconceptions about mortals were wrong. Are you ready?”
“You human beings tend to want good things to last forever. They don’t. Not while we’re in time.
“Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated.”
