Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.