Green and gold ribbons stream from a forked twig above two paths on a tiny hill at dusk.

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Walking on Water

Madeleine L'Engle

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Being human, the author says, comes down to the ability to choose. It isn't strength, intelligence or instinct that defines us but the capacity to pick one path over another, which places responsibility and freedom at the centre of what a person is.

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