Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time) Quotes

“It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are the musicians. ... Our song orders the rhythm of creation.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child,, one man, can swing the balance of the universe,”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.'
Mr. Jenkins said, heavily, 'I fear I have not been a loving person.'
Meg felt a flash of intuition as sharp and brilliant as the cherubim's flame; like flame, it burned. 'Oh, Mr. Jenkins, don't you see? Every time I was in your office, being awful and hating you, I was really hating myself more than you...”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Nobody should be exactly like anybody else.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have more of the more you give away?'
'Oh, love I suppose.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming--making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Love. That's what makes persons know who they are.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Remember, Mr. Jenkins, you're great on Benjamin Franklin's saying: We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately. That's how it is with human beings ... too I guess, and the solar system, We have to live together in--in harmony, or we won't live at all.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“I don't like it. I don't like the fact that we don't even see what's going on in our own back yard. L.A. is trying as honorably as a president can try in a world which has become so blunted by dishonor and violence that people casually take it for granted.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Here we are at the height of civilization in a well-run state in a great democracy. And four ten-year olds were picked up for pushing hard drugs in the school where our six year old is regularly given black eyes and a bloody nose.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“It isn't just in distant galaxies that strange things are happening. Unreason has crept up on to us so insidiously that we've hardly been aware of it. But think of the things going on in our own country which you wouldn't have believed possible only a few years ago.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Was there really a cherubim waiting at the star watching rock, curled up into a great feathery ball, all those eyes closed in sleep?
Was he real?
What is real?”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Then Charles Wallace cried, 'My dragons!'
They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock--
wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching--
and eyes
how many eyes can a drive of dragons have?
and small jets of flame ...”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Mr. Jenkins screamed, in a way that she had never known a man could scream, a high, piercing screech.
Then he rose up into the night like a great flapping bird, flew, screaming across the sky, became a rent, an emptiness, a slash of nothingness--”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Like everything else '...'it's falling apart. It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Now a cold awareness of the uncertainty of all life, no matter how careful the planning, hollowed emptily in the pit of her stomach.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“We're trying to do something. It would be easy--for now--to take Charles out of school. We thought about that immediately, even before he ...But Charles Wallace is going to have to live in a world made up of people who don't think at all in any of the ways that he does. and the sooner he starts learning to get along with them, the better. Neither you nor Charles has the ability to adapt that the twins do.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“We're all different, our family. Except the twins. They do all right. Maybe because they're normal. Or how to act it. But then I wonder what normal is, anyhow, or isn't.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Why do people always mistrust people who are different? Am I really that different?”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“It doesn't work. Nothing works. If I don't talk, I'm sulking. If I talk I say something wrong. I've finished the workbook--The teacher said you must've helped me--and i know the reader by heart.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)