We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg,” her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, “No, Meg. Don’t hope it was a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go… — 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 Copy Share Image
“We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We're not peculiar." "Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 Copy Share Image
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was… — 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
“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
“Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Somehow or other, the loving parents had swallowed one of the Tempter's hooks, and the child was given total self-indulgence, which is… — 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
