You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to….

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else..

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen..

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down..

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they ….

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they g….

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so….

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf..

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way..

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you ….

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations..

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be h….

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly.

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation,….

Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be,….

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contr….

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be..

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . ..

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense..

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure..