“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — 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
