Wrinkle In Time Quotes

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

It was a dark and stormy night.

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so strongly, of all the kids coming out of their house at the same time, they're all bouncing a ball at the same time, and they all go back in at the same time. A Wrinkle in Time moved me deeply.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.