A Wrinkle in Time Quotes

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

“We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Science, literature, art, theology: it is all the same ridiculous, glorious, mysterious language.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Stay angry, little Meg.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“She was whizzed into nothingness again, and nothingness was wonderful. She did not mind that she could not feel Calvin's hand, that she could not see or feel or be. The relief from the intolerable pressure was all she needed.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“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-- I've got to be brave, she said to herself. I will be”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“One thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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

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

“You mean you’re comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?”
“Yes.” Mrs. Whatsit said. “You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time