I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle Great minds Copy Share Image
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? — Madeleine L'Engle Dignity Copy Share Image
“Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. — Madeleine L'Engle Community Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.” — Madeleine L'Engle Rules Copy Share Image
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush… — Madeleine L'Engle Animals Copy Share Image
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand. — Madeleine L'Engle Adventure Copy Share Image
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.” — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this… — Madeleine L'Engle Close to death Copy Share Image
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all… — Madeleine L'Engle All alone Copy Share Image
“Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against… — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
“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 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
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 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
“We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.” — Madeleine L'Engle Judgement Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Angel 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
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
“But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” — Madeleine L'Engle Credit 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 Copy Share Image
