“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to… — Madeleine L'Engle Death and dying Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush… — Madeleine L'Engle Animals Copy Share Image
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. — Madeleine L'Engle Becoming Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive 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
“Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers” — Madeleine L'Engle Suffering Copy Share Image
Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state… — Madeleine L'Engle Constant Copy Share Image
“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We… — Madeleine L'Engle Adequate Copy Share Image
“In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to… — Madeleine L'Engle Body work Copy Share Image
“The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true… — Madeleine L'Engle Failed 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
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
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in… — Madeleine L'Engle Conscious Copy Share Image
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful… — Madeleine L'Engle Business 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
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing.… — Madeleine L'Engle Aunt Copy Share Image
“We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Feet Copy Share Image
