A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L’Engle. First published in 1962, the book has won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Profoundly inspirational A Wrinkle In Time quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous A Wrinkle In Time Quotes
The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. Mrs. Who
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnetYou’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. Madeleine L’Engle
We are such stuff as dreams are made on. Mrs. Who
We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts. Madeleine L’Engle
How small is the earth to him who looks from heaven. Mrs. Who
Believing takes practice. Madeleine L’Engle
You don’t know how lucky you are to be loved. Calvin O’Keefe
I do not know everything; still many things I understand. Madeleine L’Engle
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. Mrs. Whatsit
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. Madeleine L’Engle
Love, she insisted, is not power, which she considered always coercive. To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk not safety and security that we overcome darkness. Madeleine L’Engle
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. Madeleine L’Engle
Wild nights are my glory! Mrs. Whatsit
People are more than just the way they look. Madeleine L’Engle
It was a star. A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning. Mrs. Whatsit
If you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy. Madeleine L’Engle
You see, though we travel together, we travel alone. Mrs. Whatsit
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L’Engle
Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now. Mrs. Whatsit
Thinking I’m a moron gives people something to feel smug about, Charles Wallace said. Why should I disillusion them? Madeleine L’Engle
Maybe I don’t like being different but I don’t want to be like everybody else, either. Meg Murry
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. Madeleine L’Engle
If you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy. Meg Murry
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space. Oh, the thin beast said. Aren’t they lonely? Madeleine L’Engle
I guess I never thought of that. I guess I just took it for granted. Meg Murry
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. Madeleine L’Engle
Well, you know what, you’ve got dream boat eyes. Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don’t think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have. Calvin O’Keefe
Experiment is the mother of knowledge. Madeleine L’Engle
Do you know that this is the first time I’ve seen you without your glasses? Calvin O’Keefe
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. Madeleine L’Engle
People are more than just the way they look. Madeleine L’Engle
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
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. Mrs. Murry
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. Madeleine L’Engle
You’re going to be tested every step of the way. Have faith in who you are. Mrs. Whic
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L’Engle
The joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands. Madeleine L’Engle
We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. Madeleine L’Engle
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
Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me? Madeleine L’Engle
I don’t know if they’re really like everybody else, or if they’re able to pretend they are. Madeleine L’Engle
No I have to go on. We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear. Charles Wallace Murr
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. Madeleine L’Engle
In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Charles Wallace Murry
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books, Miranda said. It’s like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed. Madeleine L’Engle
Thinking I’m a moron gives people something to feel smug about. Why should I disillusion them? Charles Wallace Murry
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. Madeleine L’Engle
If you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy. Madeleine L’Engle
There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones. Madeleine L’Engle
We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts. Madeleine L’Engle
To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk not safety and security that we overcome darkness. Madeleine L’Engle
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. Madeleine L’Engle
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Madeleine L’Engle
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. Madeleine L’Engle
If I didn’t get fond I could be happy all the time. Madeleine L’Engle
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? Madeleine L’Engle
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Madeleine L’Engle
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
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. Madeleine L’Engle
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
There’s nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time. Madeleine L’Engle
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. Madeleine L’Engle
We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing. Madeleine L’Engle
When I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared. Madeleine L’Engle
You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. Madeleine L’Engle
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love. Madeleine L’Engle
We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. Madeleine L’Engle
