Don't be afraid to be afraid.
But she was one of those people who change very little between twenty and sixty. Instead of growing and developing into whatever kind of creatures they are, slowly and consistently, they have three pe...
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a p...
Are you fighting the Black Thing? Meg asked. Oh, yes, Aunt Beast replied. In doing that, we can never relax. We are called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of cours...
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what...
Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
Resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring.
There are three ways you can live life—three again—remember that the great writers almost always do things in threes. You can live life as though it’s all a cosmic accident; we’re nothing but an irrit...
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books, Miranda said. It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.
The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. Fo...
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
The lines of love cross time and space.
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red...
That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words.
Tell your sister I’m all right, Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. Tell her my intentions are good. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Charles intoned.
Silence is dangerousWe never permit it.Our vocabulary may not be largeBut there is no question that we put itto constant use.That’s what things are for:to be used. And used.And used.Who knows?If we di...
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.
Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. I’m all confused again. Oh, so ’m I, Calvin said gaily. But now at least I know we’re going somewhere.
Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible.What could there be about a shadow that was...
Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.