To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.” — Madeleine L'Engle Sonnet Copy Share Image
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
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think. — Madeleine L'Engle Sometimes Copy Share Image
“Tell your sister I’m all right,” Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. “Tell her my intentions are good.” “The road to hell is… — Madeleine L'Engle Good intentions Copy Share Image
“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty 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
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle Clear Copy Share Image
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. — Madeleine L'Engle Exclusive Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“It isn’t just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we’ve… — Madeleine L'Engle Unreason Copy Share Image
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God… — Madeleine L'Engle Creator Copy Share Image
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Chemistry Copy Share Image
When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we… — Madeleine L'Engle Excruciating pain Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up,… — Madeleine L'Engle Cardinals Copy Share Image
“I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely… — Madeleine L'Engle Compassion Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults 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
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
“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of… — Madeleine L'Engle Grandmother Copy Share Image
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in… — Madeleine L'Engle Atoms Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .… — Madeleine L'Engle Acquire Copy Share Image
