"Darkness has a tangible quality; it can be moved through and felt; in darkness you can bark your shins; the world of things still exists around you. She was lost in a horrifying void.
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel." / p.65
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"She tried to gasp, but a paper doll can't gasp. She thought she was trying to think, but her flattened-out mind was as unable to function as her lungs; her thoughts were squashed along with the rest of her. Her heart tried to beat; it gave a knifelike, sidewise movement, but it could not expand." / p.90
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"We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal." / p.205
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As much as I enjoyed the science fiction materials in A Wrinkle in Time, the agnostic part in me cannot relate on the spiritual level with some dialogues in the book. The paperback edition has a stunning illustration and a lovely design, which is all enough for me!

All the main characters - Meg, Charles Wallace, Calvin O'Keefe are full of flaws and weaknesses and yet so human, so real. As opposed to many reviewers, I do like Madeleine L'Engle's writing: she knows how to elaborate on things we might never see and simplify things that are too complicated for us - as beings - to understand. Although the book is quick-paced with many characters being introduced, it didn't overwhelm the readers (still, there were a few times I have to jump back a few pages to surely know that I didn't miss a detail but I'd blame it for my habit of reading slow-paced books).

I'd continue with the second book in the series to see if I would drop it or finish the trilogy.