No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

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.