As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up,… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life — Madeleine L'Engle 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 Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — 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
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely… — 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
