“—What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?” — 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 Good marriage Copy Share Image
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. — Madeleine L'Engle Human relations Copy Share Image
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. — Madeleine L'Engle Being hurt Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. — Madeleine L'Engle Incarnation 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 Each day Copy Share Image
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand. — Madeleine L'Engle Adventure Copy Share Image
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 Animals Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You… — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to… — Madeleine L'Engle Death and dying Copy Share Image
“Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting 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
“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow… — Madeleine L'Engle Almighty Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Chance Copy Share Image
“How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly… — Madeleine L'Engle Breath Copy Share Image
“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the… — Madeleine L'Engle Evil Copy Share Image
what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
“A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old,… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe in god Copy Share Image
“It’s all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I’d never start. Better… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Best way Copy Share Image
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle Choice Copy Share Image
“I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. — Madeleine L'Engle Communion Copy Share Image
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
