wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

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?

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

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