Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. — Madeleine L'Engle Inconvenient Copy Share Image
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it. — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock. — Madeleine L'Engle Broken Copy Share Image
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. — Madeleine L'Engle Asking Copy Share Image
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named — Madeleine L'Engle Meg Copy Share Image
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Future Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle Blessing Copy Share Image
“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.” — Madeleine L'Engle Time Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go,… — Madeleine L'Engle Anger and pain Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Illness Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Childhood Copy Share Image
“You might call IT the Boss.” Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard.… — 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 Astronomy 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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is… — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image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 Bats Copy Share Image
“Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out… — Madeleine L'Engle Space travel Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Feeling lost Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Change Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
