On the reality of masking
“You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.”
“For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn’t me.”
Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time. Kindle edition.
Citation
- Author: Madeleine L’Engle
- Work: A Wrinkle in Time
- Location: 42
- Edition: Kindle edition
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- License: E-book Personal Use
- Found in: My Kindle copy
- Checked: October 19, 2026
Previously published
First published on My Mercurial Nature on July 28, 2022.