April 2012
20 posts
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With a sudden enthusiastic gesture Calvin flung his arms out wide, as though he were embracing Meg and her mother, the whole house. “How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone any more! Do you realize what that means to me?”
“But you’re good at basketball and things,” Meg protested. “You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.”
“For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody , anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn’t me.”
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.”
” —Madeleine L’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time (via beachesbecrazy)
“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.”
—Madeleine L’Engle “A Wrinkle in Time” (via living-with-aliens)
“No, I have to go on. We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear.”
—Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (via cjspoolstra)
“You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
—Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle In Time (via 2yellows)
“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I’ll always have to wonder whether I’m truly wanted or whether I’ve just been settled for.”
—Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty (via dreamofbeingwhole)
“You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”
—Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (via excessivebookshelf, excessivebookshelf) (via booklover, booklover)
