Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
People are more than just the way they look. — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows n — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then. " — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
In your language you have a form of poetry called a sonnet...It is a very strict form of poetry, is it not?...There are — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing! — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the sh — 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 limitation — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time