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The coldness deepened and swirled all about her and through her, and was filled with a new and strange kind of darkness that was a completely tangible thing, a thing that wanted to eat and digest her like some enormous malignant beast of prey.

Even though she was used to Mrs Whatsi's odd The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.

"Do you think things always have an explanation?"
"Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations were not always able to understand the explana-tions. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."

"Everybody likes you."
"For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me."

To read A Wrinkle in Time is to join with millions of people around the world, across generations, across decades, who have done just what you are about to do-open the door to an act of love...A pathway through the darkness. A quest for belonging. A call to action. A step toward bravery. An embrace of self-discovery.
An ode to those who are stronger than they know.