It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I like to understand things,” Meg said. “We all do. But it isn’t always possible.” — Madeleine L'Engle Learning Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...” — Madeleine L'Engle Business Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Disillusion Copy Share Image
“But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” — Madeleine L'Engle Credit Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.” — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive 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 Close to death Copy Share Image
“Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against… — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all… — Madeleine L'Engle All alone Copy Share Image
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 Childhood Copy Share Image
“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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring,… — Madeleine L'Engle Daffodil Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
“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 Grandmother Copy Share Image
“Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace had once again been contemplating the intricate model of the tesseract. He spoke softly to his sister. “Meg, no matter… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling,… — Madeleine L'Engle Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Adulthood Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle Cry Copy Share Image
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
