Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 Copy Share Image
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Neither sadist nor masochist, I still Must turn to violence: break, be broken. False image of myself I beg you: kill. Help… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — 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 can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
