“Fewmets is my new swear word. I’m tired of all the old ones.” — Madeleine L'Engle Swear Copy Share Image
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Hope Copy Share Image
“Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.” — Madeleine L'Engle Collapse Copy Share Image
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. — Madeleine L'Engle Belief Copy Share Image
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. — Madeleine L'Engle Distance Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Ancient 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 Confusion Copy Share Image
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words… — Madeleine L'Engle Language Copy Share Image
“I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.” — Madeleine L'Engle Supposed Copy Share Image
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an… — Madeleine L'Engle Enough Copy Share Image
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Felt Copy Share Image
“I suppose that depends on how you look at it,” Meg said. “Usually no matter what happens people think it’s my fault,… — Madeleine L'Engle Bad Feeling Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults 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
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Joy 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
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
“Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down… — Madeleine L'Engle Faith 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
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Apostles 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 Books 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
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepted 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 Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) — Madeleine L'Engle Craftsman Copy Share Image
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not… — Madeleine L'Engle Exist Copy Share Image
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta — Madeleine L'Engle Cold Copy Share Image
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Certain Copy Share Image
“There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.” — Madeleine L'Engle Corrupted Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Contradict Copy Share Image
