I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . . — Madeleine L'Engle Fifteen Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?" "Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance Copy Share Image
“There’s something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. — Madeleine L'Engle Blind Copy Share Image
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. — Madeleine L'Engle Growth Copy Share Image
“But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,” — Madeleine L'Engle 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
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict… — Madeleine L'Engle Dangerous Copy Share Image
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
“Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Assignments Copy Share Image
“Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Illness Copy Share Image
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time… — Madeleine L'Engle Being there Copy Share Image
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. — Madeleine L'Engle Men Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Contact 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 Copy Share Image
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are. — Madeleine L'Engle Music Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
