We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

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.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life