I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always,… — Madeleine L'Engle Care Copy Share Image
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Disillusion Copy Share Image
“But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up.… — Madeleine L'Engle Awful Copy Share Image
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle Balance 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
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write… — Madeleine L'Engle Form Copy Share Image
“... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.” — Madeleine L'Engle Healing-insights Copy Share Image
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. — Madeleine L'Engle Another life Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Capable Copy Share Image
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. — Madeleine L'Engle Hurt Copy Share Image
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
I do not know everything; still many things I understand. — Madeleine L'Engle Learning Copy Share Image
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water;… — Madeleine L'Engle Able 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
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things. — Madeleine L'Engle All kinds Copy Share Image
“Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.” — Madeleine L'Engle Fall apart Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous… — Madeleine L'Engle Prayer Copy Share Image
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"… — Madeleine L'Engle Faults Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the… — Madeleine L'Engle Evil Copy Share Image
