Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water;… — 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
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill… — 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 wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
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
