Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Conceived Copy Share Image
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
“I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!” — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Eternal Copy Share Image
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth. — Madeleine L'Engle Life truth Copy Share Image
“We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.” — Madeleine L'Engle Discovered Copy Share Image
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Disillusion Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.” — Madeleine L'Engle Conversation Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Read 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
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.… — Madeleine L'Engle Bird Copy Share Image
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life… — Madeleine L'Engle Definitions Copy Share Image
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle Activity Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make… — Madeleine L'Engle Comprehensible Copy Share Image
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Anguish Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, “No, Meg. Don’t hope it was a… — Madeleine L'Engle Dream Copy Share Image
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"… — Madeleine L'Engle Faults Copy Share Image
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all… — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
“If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out… — Madeleine L'Engle Confess Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Afternoon Copy Share Image
“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
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
I do not know everything; still many things I understand. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. — Madeleine L'Engle Know Copy Share Image
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. — Madeleine L'Engle Good marriage Copy Share Image
“—What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?” — Madeleine L'Engle Moods Copy Share Image
