Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

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

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

In reading we must become creators.