Whatsit's Quotes

#1. From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry.
Calvin fell to his knees.
"No," Mrs. Whatsit said, though her voice was not Mrs. Whatsit's voice. "Not to me Calvin. Never to me. Stand up.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again.

Philip K. Dick

#4. After he tipped his hat and left, Jillian watched him stride down the hallway. Yeah, Big-brotherly overprotection aside, fortysomething looked good on the police captain from this view, too.

Julie Miller

#5. I loved her in ways I understood, full of physical aches and the need to be near her whenever I could. But I also loved her in ways that were unfamiliar, with an intensity that made me willing to attempt the impossible.

Elizabeth Langston

#6. Or, if you are Penokio, you will feel like: I wud rather not be made of wud. I wud rather be made of skin, so my father Jipeta will stop hitting me with a hamer.

George Saunders

#7. Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Toni Morrison

#8. Tell your sister I'm all right," Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. "Tell her my intentions are good." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Wild nights are my glory!

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. i do not see why men
should be so proud
insects have the more
ancient lineage
according to the scientists
insects were insects
when man was only
a burbling whatsit

Don Marquis

#11. There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. - activity holidays are a whatsit. Contradiction in terms."
"Oxymoron."
I flipped him a finger. "Same to you with knobs on.

J.L. Merrow

#13. If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously.

Mark De Mori

#14. You see, a man's... ahem... is shaped differently from a woman's..." Mama fluttered her hand. "... whatsit. And in the marital bed, he will wish to place his..." More hand fluttering. "... inside yours."
"His ahem goes in my whatsit."
"In so many words. Yes.

Tessa Dare

#15. When you have a life filled with love, you don't really need anything else

Colleen Houck

#16. He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. 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.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. Put positive energy out into the world. If everybody did that, we would be in harmony.

China Forbes

#19. Meg, I give you your faults."
"My faults!" Meg cried.
"Your faults."
"But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"
"Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Madeleine L'Engle

#20. There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

Aspen Matis

#21. We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said.
"But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace.
Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. "On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.

Madeleine L'Engle

#22. Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Madeleine L'Engle

#23. Adaptability is key.

Marc Andreessen

#24. Piper glanced at the digital clock. "So ... we have exactly one hour to find your runaway table, get back your synco-whatsit, and install it in this engine, or the Argo II explodes, destroying Bunker Nine and most of the woods." "Basically," Leo said.

Rick Riordan

#25. You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline.

Sunday Adelaja

#26. 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.

Madeleine L'Engle