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"mrs whatsit said breathlessly, 'oh, my darlings, i'm sorry we don't have time to say goodbye to you properly. you see, we have to--'
but they never learned what it was that mrs whatsit, mrs who, and mrs which had to do, for there was a gust of wind, and they were gone."

"'cal--' meg said, holding out her hand.
calvin came to her and took her hand, then drew her roughly to him and kissed her. he didn't say anything, and he turned away before he had a chance to see the surprised happiness that brightened meg's eyes."

(ahah)

"mrs which's voice was grave. 'wwhatt ddoo yyou unndderrsstanndd?'
'that it has to be me. it can't be anyone else.'"

"PARALLELS!!" i scream as they drag me away

"'all right,' meg promised, and yet she knew that to try and explain anything that could be seen with the eyes would be impossible, because the beasts in some way saw, knew, understood, far more completely than she, or her parents, or calvin, or even charles wallace."

"'tell me,' the beast said. 'what do you suppose you'd do if the three of us suddenly arrived on your home planet?'
'shoot you, i guess,' calvin admitted."

WHAT THE HELL CALVIN

the underhanded religious subtext is screwing with me

"words spoke within her, directly this time, not through charles. 'don't you realize if you destroy me, you also destroy your little brother?'"

PARALLELSSSS

partly reading this for nostalgia, partly reading this to look for parallels between this and a tv show (if you know, you know)