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
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen. — Madeleine L'Engle Dozen Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. — Madeleine L'Engle Coming home Copy Share Image
“We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.” — Madeleine L'Engle 215 Copy Share Image
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. — Madeleine L'Engle Hard 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
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant… — Madeleine L'Engle Unpleasant Copy Share Image
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. — Madeleine L'Engle Conscious Copy Share Image
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things… — Madeleine L'Engle I've learned Copy Share Image
I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call… — Madeleine L'Engle Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don’t you, dear sister?” — Madeleine L'Engle Alike Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not… — Madeleine L'Engle Good morning Copy Share Image
“You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.” “For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the… — Madeleine L'Engle Calvin Copy Share Image
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very… — Madeleine L'Engle Evening Copy Share Image
“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.… — Madeleine L'Engle Because i care Copy Share Image
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate.… — Madeleine L'Engle Abnormal Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
“The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's always bothered… — Madeleine L'Engle Bigger Copy Share Image
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy 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
“A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.… — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit… — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in… — Madeleine L'Engle Birth Copy Share Image