Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. — Madeleine L'Engle Coming home Copy Share Image
“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.” — Madeleine L'Engle Sonnet Copy Share Image
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
“Tell your sister I’m all right,” Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. “Tell her my intentions are good.” “The road to hell is… — Madeleine L'Engle Good intentions 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
I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . . — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don’t you, dear sister?” — 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 Angry Copy Share Image
“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very… — Madeleine L'Engle Evening Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we… — Madeleine L'Engle Excruciating pain Copy Share Image
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Chemistry Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely… — Madeleine L'Engle Compassion Copy Share Image
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Adults Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
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 Atoms Copy Share Image
