“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”