When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.