Madeleine L'Engle
196 pp.
I began this story on October 1, 2019, and finished it on Monday October 21, 2019. It was the first of a three part series. A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in The Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet all dealt with Meg and Charles-Wallace Murry and the O'Keefe's as well.
"There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own time and way."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 10
Everyone does some things differently. That's what makes our communities and countries and even our families so strong. This can be said about many individuals. They don't go with the flow, the make their own waves so to speak. Are you a leader or a follower? How brave are you?
"Your development has to go at it's own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 11
There is no predetermined time when one shall develop into something else. Life is a process, we have to all stay true to ourselves as well as stay true to the process of life.
"You don't have to understand things for them to be."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 24
Charles Wallace and Meg met Calvin O'Keefe. These are the three main characters.
"The heart has its own reasons, where of nothing knows nothing."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 35
Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace just met Mrs. Whatsit and was sewing Holloween costumes, she told them to leave, Charles Wallace said he'd explain later as soon as he understood.
"I think with our human limitations, we're not always able to understand the explanations."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 45
Calvin came over for stew, then Meg walked him home.
Charles Wallace appeared and took them their voyage with Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Which
"It was not simple darkness, or absence of light. Darkness has a tangible quality, it can be moved through and felt; in darkness you can bark your shins; the world of things still exists around you. She was lost in a horrifying void."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 55
"The only way to cope with something deadly is to treat it a little lightly."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 58
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."
Euripides
A Wrinkle In Time P. 59
"The more a man knows the less he talks."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 59
They all just tesseracted to Messier 101, Uriel third planet of Malak
"To stake one's life for the truth."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 60
Mrs. Whatsit turned into a minotaur with wings.
As they flew they saw a beautiful garden, and many creatures the same as Mrs. Whatsit turned into, they were singing, Charles Wallace could only make out some of what they were singing. They each took flowers from the gardens and used them to breathe when the altitude was to thin.
"What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been or ever would be again anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 60
"Experiance is the mother of knowledge."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 72
You need knowledge in order to have gained experience. The more knowledgeable you are the more experienced you may be.
They went to a two dimensional planet. They met the Happy Medium. When the children asked her to show them their home, the medium said "Why must I show them that when they're so many pleasant things to see."
Mrs. Which responded "There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 74
They saw a darkness that was trying to consume Earth.
Jesus, Shakespeare, Leonardo Divinci, Michelangelo, Bach, Louie Pasteur, Madame Curie, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Muhammad Gandhi, Buddha, Beethoven, St. Francis, Euclid, and Copernicus faught the darkness.
Meg saw Calvin's mother hitting his brothers, she wanted to protect him as she did Charles Wallace
"This time the nothingness was interrupted by a feeling of clammy coldness such as she never had felt before. The coldness had deepened and swirled all around her and through her, and was filled with a new and strange of darkness that was a completely tangible thing, a thing that wanted to eat and digest her like some enormous beast of prey."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 93
"I do not know everything; still many things I understand."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 95
"Only a fool is not afraid."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 96
True bravery is shown when you least expect it. It is strength, courage and disapline which lead to bravery. To different people bravery varies, some may lead adventurous lives which bravery is a must, while others may lead more subtle lives where they don't require bravery as much.
The town they went to all the children were playing ball and skipping rope outside in rhythm. The houses and the paths were identical and even the flowers.
Charles Wallace gave a boy his ball back and his mother glowered at him. They met a paper boy who told them about Central Intelligence. They found the Central Intelligence and were going in. In the Central Intelligence Agency they saw a man who was reporting one of his letters were jamming. To which Charles Wallace said "Strawberry or raspberry jam."
"We have to make decisions, based on fear."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 112
They had met this man who said they had been waiting for them. The man had asked Charles Wallace to stare in his eyes.
Charles Wallace has a neurologically brain to cope with special ideals.
"I would not have your decisions come from the weakness of an empty stomach."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 120
They lost Charles Wallace and were eating with a clone
They didn't know what happened to Charles Wallace.
"You see on this planet everything is in perfect order because everybody has learned to relax, to give in, to submit. All you have to do is look quietly and steadily into the eyes of are good friend here, for he is our friend, dear sister, and he will take you in as he has taken me."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 127
"Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes, you don't know how to be happy."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 133
Charles Wallace, the imposter, proved himself yet again by laughing at Meg when she got hurt. Meg has to sacrifice herself to save both Charles Wallace and her father. Their father couldn't see. So, Mrs. Who's glasses gave him back his sight.
"Meg could feel a rhythmical pulsing. It was a pulsing not only about her but in her as well, as though the rhythm of her heart and lungs was no longer her own but was being worked by some outside source."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 146
Meg realized it was a brain.
"Like and equal are two entirely different things."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 149
"The first sign of her returning to conciousness was cold. Than sound. She was aware of voices that seemed to be traveling through her across an artic waste. She realized the voices belonged to her father and Calvin. She did not hear Charles Wallace. She tried to open her eyes, but the lids would not move. She tried to sit up, but she could not stir. She struggled to turn over, to move her hands, her feet, but nothing happened. She knew that she had a body, but it was lifeless as marble."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 152
"ITs completely unused to being refused. That's the only reason I could help from being absorbed, too. No mind has to hold out against IT for so many thousands of centuries that certain certain centers have become soft and atrophied through lack of use. If you hadn't come to me when you did I'm not sure how much longer I would have lasted. I was at the point of given in"
A Wrinkle In Time P. 153
"Nothing seemed important but complete rest, and of course IT offered me complete rest. I had almost come to the conclusion that I was wrong to fight, that IT was right after all and everything I believed in most passionately was a madman's dream. But then you and Meg came to me, broke through my prison, and hope and faith returned."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 153
Meg was trapped in a marble statue. They saw a beast with tentacle fingers which each had a head. The beast was taking Meg.
Meg was out of the comatose state and asked about Charles Wallace, father, and Calvin. Her keeper said they were looking for Charles Wallace. The keepers don't understand the concept of dark and light.
"How can you explain sight on a world where no one has ever seen and where their is no need for eyes?"
A Wrinkle In Time P. 169
"It was a music even more tangible than form or sight. It had essence and structure. And for a moment only the melody was real."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 171
"It was she who was limited by her senses."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 171
"We look not at things which are seen, but at things which are not seen. For things which are seen are temporal. But things which are unseen are eternal."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 172
Aunt Beast took Meg back to her father and Calvin and as they were having lunch their meal got interupted with Angel's. Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which materialized between Meg, Calvin, and her father. Meg's going to save Charles Wallace.
"You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?"
A Wrinkle In Time P. 184
"You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 184
Mrs Whatsit gave her the gift of love.
Mrs Who gave the spectacles with a little enchantment: "The foolishness of man; and the weakness of God is stronger than man. For ye see your calling brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many might, not many noble, are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are naught...May the right prevail."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 186-187
"Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs Whatsits love, and her father's and her mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's and the twins, and Aunt Beast's."
A Wrinkle In Time P. 192
Once back to Earth Meg, her father, and mother and the twins were hugging and the three witches tried to tell them something but vanished in a gust of wind before they had a chance.
