All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we...
All my life the people I have loved—Ilsa, Cousin Anna, Silver, Myra Turnbull, Joshua Tisbury—have accepted me as a friend, have confided in me—but, somehow, there has been no actual contact made. It h...
A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Девочка решила, что стоит сварить себе горячего какао. Это немного приободрит ее, и даже если крышу сорвет ветром, Мэг не унесет вместе с нею.
Your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day
The joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands.
The discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.
The climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the...
You might call IT the Boss. Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.
You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create i...
You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.
William James wrote: Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness,...
Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
What is real?
We tend to think things are new because we just discovered 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 which are not seen are eternal.
Trust easily come by can vanish as easily.
The writing of a book may be a solitary business, it is done alone. The writer sits down with paper and pen, or typewriter, and, withdrawn from the world, tries to set down the story that is crying to...
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
The more a man knows, the less he talks.