When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

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

The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

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