Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

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

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

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.