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 Answers Copy Share Image
“Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.” — Madeleine L'Engle Corrupted Copy Share Image
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta — Madeleine L'Engle Cold Copy Share Image
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Certain Copy Share Image
“Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not… — Madeleine L'Engle Exist Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Felt Copy Share Image
“I suppose that depends on how you look at it,” Meg said. “Usually no matter what happens people think it’s my fault,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Asylums Copy Share Image
“That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a… — Madeleine L'Engle Silence speaks Copy Share Image
“It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh,… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Joy Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
“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
“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
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat… — Madeleine L'Engle Bats Copy Share Image
“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Afternoon Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy 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
