I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we’d be—we’d be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the… — 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
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given… — 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
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this… — 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
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in… — 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
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
“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time… — 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
“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is… — 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
“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
