“We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.” — Madeleine L'Engle Discovered 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
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. — Madeleine L'Engle Human relations Copy Share Image
you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty. — Madeleine L'Engle Dirty Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Helping Copy Share Image
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. — Madeleine L'Engle Being hurt Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a… — Madeleine L'Engle Add Copy Share Image
“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Relax Copy Share Image
“I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Christ 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 Create Copy Share Image
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle Amor Copy Share Image
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
This is the irrational season/ Had Mary been filled with reason/ There'd have been no room/ For the child. - Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all… — Madeleine L'Engle Baby 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 Cave 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
“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a… — Madeleine L'Engle War Copy Share Image
Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state… — Madeleine L'Engle Actor Copy Share Image
“In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the… — Madeleine L'Engle Tadpole Stage Copy Share Image
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when… — Madeleine L'Engle Feels Copy Share Image
“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly… — Madeleine L'Engle Breath Copy Share Image
“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the… — Madeleine L'Engle Evil 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 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
“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
“It’s all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I’d never start. Better… — Madeleine L'Engle Thing Said Copy Share Image
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Best way Copy Share Image
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible. — Madeleine L'Engle Friend Copy Share Image
“Do you know how lucky you are?” She smiled rather wryly. “Not most of the time.” — Madeleine L'Engle Smiled Copy Share Image
“—What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?” — Madeleine L'Engle Moods 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
