If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Family Copy Share Image
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. — Madeleine L'Engle Inconvenient Copy Share Image
“In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Communication 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
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Born Copy Share Image
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Change Copy Share Image
“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom 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
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason… — Madeleine L'Engle Matter Copy Share Image
“One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest… — Madeleine L'Engle Books 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
“We're not peculiar." "Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been… — Madeleine L'Engle Divorce Copy Share Image
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true… — Madeleine L'Engle Easy 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
