Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Do you know how lucky you are?” She smiled rather wryly. “Not most of the time.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Ah,” she said, “that’s ever so much better,” and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. “My stomach is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we’d be—we’d be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
