Meg Murry Quotes

“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”

“Calvin said, “Do you know that this is the first time I’ve seen you without your glasses?” “I’m blind as a bat without them. I’m near-sighted, like father.” “Well, you know what, you’ve got dream-boat eyes,” Calvin said. “Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don’t think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”

“It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.”

“When I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.”

“If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.”

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”

“Maybe I don’t like being different,” Meg said. “but I don’t want to be like everybody else, either.”

“Like and equal are not the same thing at all!”

“We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”