We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — Madeleine L'Engle Discovered Copy Share Image
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star. — Madeleine L'Engle Butterfly Copy Share Image
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray — Madeleine L'Engle Equal Copy Share Image
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story. — Madeleine L'Engle Closest Copy Share Image
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.” — Madeleine L'Engle Feminism Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Artist Copy Share Image
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are… — Madeleine L'Engle Emotion Copy Share Image
“Remember, he hasn’t much imagination. Or, rather, it’s been frozen for a long while and hasn’t had time to thaw.” — Madeleine L'Engle Frozen Copy Share Image
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle Aunt Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Character 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
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need… — Madeleine L'Engle Causes Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not… — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
“What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Business Copy Share Image
One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect,… — Madeleine L'Engle Depends Copy Share Image
“You might call IT the Boss.” Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard.… — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm."… — Madeleine L'Engle Best friend Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Feel Copy Share Image
“There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. Even… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male… — Madeleine L'Engle Male Copy Share Image
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend… — Madeleine L'Engle Awareness Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Child Copy Share Image
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer. — Madeleine L'Engle Entire Copy Share Image
“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.” — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
“... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.” — Madeleine L'Engle Healing-insights Copy Share Image
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle Choice Copy Share Image
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. — Madeleine L'Engle Communion Copy Share Image
“I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.” — Madeleine L'Engle Hand Copy Share Image
