Madeleine L'Engle

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Love is the one surprise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Are anybody's parents typical?

— Madeleine L'Engle

And joy is always a promise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“It was not an end, it was a beginning.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

In reading we must become creators.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

— Madeleine L'Engle

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

— Madeleine L'Engle

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I like to understand things,” Meg said. “We all do. But it isn’t always possible.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

— Madeleine L'Engle

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik”

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, “No, Meg. Don’t hope it was a…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of…

— Madeleine L'Engle