Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. — Madeleine L'Engle Pet Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn’t he?” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Humans Copy Share Image
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.” — Madeleine L'Engle Rules Copy Share Image
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. — Madeleine L'Engle Community Copy Share Image
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle Compassion Copy Share Image
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the… — Madeleine L'Engle Facts Copy Share Image
“You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren’t,” Mrs. Murry said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Idiot,” Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. “Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.” — Madeleine L'Engle Idiot Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
“There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. Even… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Child 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 Awareness Copy Share Image
“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If God’s peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark clouds Copy Share Image
It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of… — Madeleine L'Engle Ashamed Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — 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
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle Inspiration Copy Share Image
“Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star. — Madeleine L'Engle Butterfly Copy Share Image
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
