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.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.