Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat… — Madeleine L'Engle Bats 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
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Assuming 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
“Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
“I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Christ 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
“It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.” — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Contagious 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
“Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.” — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle Drama Copy Share Image
“Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply… — Madeleine L'Engle Desperate Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
