Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it. — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
“Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one," Mrs. Murry said. "More French toast, boys?” — Madeleine L'Engle French toast Copy Share Image
“It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it… — Madeleine L'Engle Hope 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
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
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
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 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
“I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, 'but I've discovered that I can't… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe in god Copy Share Image
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go,… — Madeleine L'Engle Anger and pain Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Being Copy Share Image
“There’s something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Adolescent Copy Share Image
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Family Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Empty space Copy Share Image
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
“The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too… — Madeleine L'Engle Religion Copy Share Image
“He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was… — Madeleine L'Engle Purity Copy Share Image
“I can’t do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven’s sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to… — Madeleine L'Engle Book 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 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 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
