"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline L'Engle

Sorry for all the book quotes.  We've had three weeks of reading---and I'm trying to catch up with the quotes.  Later---I intend to do this on a monthly basis or something---whenever we finish a book. This is for me and for Miriam more than anything else.  For further explanation, you can read the post from "The Little Prince"

"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


"Like and equal are not the same thing at all!"


"We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said.  "We know what things are like.  It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing."


"The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly."


".....It is a very strict form of poetry, is it not?"
"Yes."
"There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter.  That's a very strict rhythm or meter, yes?"
"Yes," Calvin nodded.
"And each line has to end with a rigid rhyme pattern.  And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet, is it?"
"No."
"But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants, doesn't he?"
"Yes." Calvin nodded again.
"So," Mrs. Whatsit said.
"So what?"
"Oh, do not be stupid, boy!" Mrs Whatsit scolded.  "You know perfectly well what I am driving at!"
"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 write the sonnet yourself.  What you say is completely up to you."