Best Quotes from A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle with Page Numbers

It’s not just the weather, she thought. It’s the weather on top of everything else.

You asked to have the attic bedroom, she told herself savagely. Mother let you have it because you’re the oldest. It’s a privilege, not a punishment.

Why can’t I hide it, too? Meg thought. Why do I always have to show everything?

You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren’t.

Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb. You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.

Just give yourself time, Meg.

You’re letting him be himself.

A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

There is such a thing as a tesseract.

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.

Sometimes during vacations some of the boys go out there looking for thrills, but I don’t think anybody’s apt to right now.

You just make things harder for yourself by your attitude.

You can’t accuse her of not facing facts, can you? She’s a scientist.

Your father and I used to have a joke about tesseract.

Sometimes I get a feeling about things. You might call it a compulsion.

The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.

Trust in us! Now, shoo!

Let’s not talk about it till we’ve had something to eat. I need fuel so I can sort things out and assimilate them properly.

Maybe we weren’t meant to meet before this. I mean, I knew who you were in school and everything, but I didn’t know you. But I’m glad we’ve met now, Meg. We’re going to be friends, you know.

Do you know how lucky you are? You don’t know how lucky you are to be loved.

Things are going to happen, Meg! Good things! I feel it!

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

People are more than just the way they look. Charles Wallace’s difference isn’t physical. It’s in essence.

I just want to get things straight, sort of sort out the fact from fiction.

You’re supposed to be dumb in school, always being called up on the carpet.

Your mother’s a completely different person and she’s a lot older than you are.

I just want to get things straight, sort of sort out the fact from fiction.

You’re the nicest thing that’s happened to me in a long time.

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

"If you want to help your father, then you must learn patience."

"To stake one’s life for the truth. That is what we must do."

"It’s going to be hard for her to realize that we are serious."

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

"You have to be patient, Meg."

"Remember, we stopped here...to give you a chance to know what you’re up against."

"But that’s going to be hard for Meg."

"You can’t go on changing my name each time I metamorphose."

"Through this bliss could come the faintest whisper of doubt."

My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there were no hope?

We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it.

Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

It’s very easy to do if you just know how.

Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you.

There will be no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.

We will continue to fight!

All through the universe it’s being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it’s a grand and exciting battle.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

“It can be overcome! It is being overcome all the time!”

“You will need help,” she told them, “but all I am allowed to give you is a little talisman.”

“Your faults.”

“Only a fool is not afraid.”

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

“What is it?” he asked Meg and Calvin. “There was something funny about the way he talked, as though—well, as though he weren’t really doing the talking.”

“Well, kiss me goodbye for good luck, then,” the Medium said.

“Let’s do something!”

“But if you weren’t afraid to do what you did when you were a star, why should you be afraid for us now?”

“How can we help him if we don’t know what we’re up against?”

"We have to stay together. Suppose you didn’t come out and we had to go in after you?"

"Let’s ask somebody something."

"There is nothing to fear except fear itself."

"You see, what you will soon realize is that there is no need to fight me. Not only is there no need, but you will not have the slightest desire to do so."

"We will make our own decisions, thank you."

"The spoken word is one of the triumphs of man."

"If you try it on me I shall kick you!"

"I have to try. For Father, Meg. Please. I want—I want to know my father—"

"Can I speak to Meg and Calvin alone, without your listening in?"

"That isn’t Charles! Charles is gone!"

"You’ve got to help me hold Charles!"

"We’ve been all wrong."

"Meg, you’ve got to stop fighting and relax. Relax and be happy."

"If you’re different, you’re not happy."

"Nobody suffers here. Nobody is ever unhappy."

"But nobody’s ever happy, either."

"Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes, you don’t know how to be happy."

"This isn’t the only alternative! It can’t be!"

"How dreadful it is to be low, individual organisms."

"Ah, here we are."

"No, Meg. I’m in prison here. I have been for—"

"Darling," he said, "I’m afraid your glasses won’t help."

"You will just have to take my word for it, Margaret," came the cold, flat voice from Charles Wallace.

"Good girl, Meg!" her father shouted at her.

"Like and equal are not the same thing at all!"

"But I got in," Meg repeated. "I’m here. Maybe the glasses help the atoms rearrange. Try it, Father."

"Father, it’s IT talking through Charles. IT isn’t Charles. He’s—he’s bewitched."

"He can’t hear you," Charles said.

"When you speak to me you will say ‘No, Father,’ or ‘No, sir.’"

"What do you want?"

"But it’s beating. She’s alive."

"Nothing seemed important anymore but rest, and of course IT offered me complete rest."

"Hope and faith returned."

"We must not be afraid to take time."

"We’re children playing with dynamite."

"I was a wiser and a humbler man."

"We’re not on Camazotz. I don’t know where we are."

"The human brain is a very delicate organism, and it can be easily damaged."

"We were sent here for something."

"All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose."

"The Black Thing burns unless it is counteracted properly."

"We see not at the things which are 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."

"You must wait until you are more calm. Now, my darling...you must eat now, and sleep, and I will stay with you."

"What a very strange world yours must be!" the beast said, "that such a peculiar-seeming thing should be of such importance."

"We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing."

"You are so tiny and vulnerable..."

"We would never leave him behind the shadow. But for now you must relax, you must be happy, you must get well."

"Good helps us, the stars help us, perhaps what you would call light helps us, love helps us."

"We are called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies."

"What a funny little tadpole you are! Is the pain gone now?"

You know that we can do nothing on Camazotz.

I thought you would know that this is not our way.

You are going to allow Meg the privilege of accepting this danger.

Don’t be afraid to be afraid. We will try to have courage for you.

What you say is completely up to you.

I give you my love, Meg. Never forget that. My love always.

The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

What have I got that IT hasn’t got?

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

I love you, Charles Wallace, come away from IT, come back, come home.