Mrs Whatsit Quotes

“We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”

“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”

“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.”

“There’s nothing left except to try.”

“You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

“Wild nights are my glory!”

“Only a fool is not afraid.”

“It was a star,” Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. “A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.”

“Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.”