This book figures prominently in When You Reach Me, so it was a natural thing to re-read it after i finished that. It's been almost 20 years since i first read A Wrinkle In Time and its sequels. I had forgotten much about it, but there was also much that had stayed with me. It's a scary story!
But it's perhaps more than all a story where people are not what they appear to be, where often the ugly or awkward people have great beauty, and it's in what appears to be perfect that evil lurks. Where love is the ultimate weapon, and this means learning to love oneself with all of one's imperfections, as well as to love the one who needs saving.
Quotes:
It was a dark and stormy night.
"Wild nights are my glory," Mrs Whatsit said. "I just got caught in a down draft and blown off course."
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
"I do face facts," Meg said. "They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you."
though we travel together, we travel alone
Meg, I give you your faults.
Below them the town was laid out in harsh angular patterns. The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door. Meg had a feeling that if she could count the flowers there would be exactly the same number for each house.
On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems.
Good helps us, the stars help us, perhaps what you would call light helps us, love helps us. Oh, my child, I cannot explain! This is something you just have to know or not know.
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