Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle Blessing Copy Share Image
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle Destiny 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 Time Copy Share Image
“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for… — Madeleine L'Engle Action Copy Share Image
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act… — Madeleine L'Engle Conscious Copy Share Image
“Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave. “Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.” — Madeleine L'Engle Time Copy Share Image
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into… — Madeleine L'Engle Complexity Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...” — Madeleine L'Engle Business Copy Share Image
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch… — Madeleine L'Engle Ashes Copy Share Image
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Childhood Copy Share Image
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle Faults Copy Share Image
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
“We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order… — Madeleine L'Engle Death 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
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the… — Madeleine L'Engle Bread and wine Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Enormous Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Honest Copy Share Image
