there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen. — Madeleine L'Engle Dozen Copy Share Image
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. — Madeleine L'Engle Differences Copy Share Image
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch… — Madeleine L'Engle Ashes Copy Share Image
“We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them… — Madeleine L'Engle Biblical Copy Share Image
We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all… — Madeleine L'Engle Acknowledging Copy Share Image
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into… — Madeleine L'Engle Complexity Copy Share Image
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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 Ability 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 Ahead of 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
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Family Copy Share Image
When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Broken Copy Share Image
“Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Adam Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Adolescent Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation 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
“Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no… — Madeleine L'Engle Shock Words Copy Share Image
“If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out… — Madeleine L'Engle Confess Copy Share Image
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all… — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
“I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“I've always thought about the theatre like a Christmas tree, all shining and bright with beautiful ornaments. But now it seems like… — Madeleine L'Engle Christmas tree Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. — Madeleine L'Engle Answer Copy Share Image
“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.” — Madeleine L'Engle Sonnet Copy Share Image
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
