- Mrs. Which: Do you realize how many events and choices that had to occur since the birth of the universe, leading to the making of you just exactly the way you are?
- Meg: I guess I never really thought about that.
- Mrs. Which: Maybe now's the time to start thinking about it.
- Calvin: You know, you have great hair!
- Meg: What? No, I don't. Please don't say that.
- Calvin: Okay!
- [pause]
- Calvin: I had a great time. Your mom is insanely nice.
- [Veronica looks out her window]
- Calvin: Your house is warm. Smells good and is full of... I don't know what. It's amazing!
- Meg: It's far from amazing. My mom's upstairs in her room preparing for yet another parent-teacher conference for her delinquent daughter.
- Meg: [sees Veronica staring at Meg and Calvin out her window and sighs] Oh now, not now. Come here!
- [Veronica laughs and Calvin waves at her]
- Calvin: Veronica is your neighbor?
- Meg: Yes! Come here. Please!
- Calvin: So, you're embarrassed to be seen with me?
- Meg: Yeah right. Other way around. She's going to tell everybody that you were with me and I'm just trying to protect your reputation. So, can come you here?
- Calvin: She already saw us. Besides, there's nothing to be embarrassed about!
- [Veronica closes her window]
- Meg: You say that now, but... you don't know what it's like having your every move mocked and ridiculed.
- Calvin: Well, you'd be surprised!
- Meg: Come on, Calvin. Everybody likes you. Even the teachers. You do everything perfectly.
- Calvin: [smirks] Tell that to my dad!
- Meg: At least, you have your dad!
- Calvin: Right, sorry that - you must really miss him?
- Meg: More than anything in the universe!
- Mrs. Who: [to Calvin] "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." Gibran, Lebanese.
- [flashback where Calvin is abused by his father]
- Calvin's Father: 84! 82! 82? I mean, are you even trying or are you just an idiot? Because if this is the best you can do, it's pathetic. You look at me when I'm talking to you. This is pathetic!
- Principal Jenkins: You're next, Charles Wallace!
- [closes the door]
- Principal Jenkins: Veronica Kiley's parents are on their way here. They're worried for their daughter's safety.
- Meg: Their daughter is mean!
- Principal Jenkins: You hit her in the face!
- [sits at his desk and pauses]
- Principal Jenkins: You - you we're a top student. Top attitude. But, look at you now. You - you're aggressive, you're hostile, you shut everybody out, and then wonder why they don't like you.
- Meg: I don't wonder and I don't care!
- Principal Jenkins: Hmm. Well, maybe that's your problem!
- Meg: I don't have a problem!
- Principal Jenkins: You can't keep using your father's disappearance as an excuse to act out. What do you he think he'd say about all this? Seriously? If he walked through that door today, what would happen?
- Meg: The world would make sense again!
- Principal Jenkins: Listen, all I'm saying is... it's been four years. Odds are, he's not coming back.
- [Meg gets up from her chair and leaves the office]
- Principal Jenkins: I did not excuse you, young lady. Meg!
- [cut to the Murry house]
- Mrs. Murry: I want you to write an apology to Principal Jenkins.
- [Meg nods her head in fear]
- Mrs. Murry: And one to Veronica.
- Meg: Mom! She called Charles Wallace crazy!
- Mrs. Murry: That's no excuse!
- [walks away]
- Meg: Well, Dad always told me to stand up for what I believe in!
- Mrs. Murry: Don't use Dad like that. It's not fair!
- Meg: He's not coming back! Is he?
- Mrs. Murry: Don't give up hope, Meg-lin!
- Charles Wallace: [possess by The It] That's so like you to try to come to the rescue, isn't it Calvin? Always so helpful, overly cheery, trying to please everyone, hoping to convince them that you're not just a burden to your father and your world. Pathetic!
- Calvin: [when Mrs. Whatsit transforms and takes off her clothes] Whoa, Mrs. Whatsit! Humans don't just get naked!
- Dr. Alex Murry: So, what if we are here for a reason? What if we are not just in the universe... but the universe is within all of us?
- Mrs. Murry: Think about quantum entanglement. Two electrons once bonded together, in love, if you will... suddenly separated by a galaxy... but somehow still just as connected. An unbroken union despite being galaxies apart.
- Dr. Alex Murry: And our most recent calculations show us that these fields connect us... to other dimensions. Dimensions outside of the limitations of space and time. Imagine that. Imagine... rather than enduring the oppressive rules of time and space, we could wrinkle it. 91 billion light-years traveled, like that.
- [snaps his fingers to denote the time and efforts in travelling so]
- Dr. Alex Murry: And we don't need rockets. We don't need spaceships. We don't need anything. To utilize a tesseract... all you need is to tap into the right frequency. You just need your mind.
- Mrs. Murry: Listen, listen, listen. Look. Hear me out. So, in order to be great... it isn't enough just to be right. You have to actually be great. And we are. So, why can't we help the others along?
- Mrs. Whatsit: [Flies over the high wall and fence and lands on the lawn grass] I've never understood the point of fences.