If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. — 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 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
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for… — 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
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I… — 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 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
