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“It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."

"Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“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.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren’t,” Mrs. Murry said.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time