Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth. — Madeleine L'Engle Life truth Copy Share Image
“We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn’t he?” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. — Madeleine L'Engle Pet Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Idiot,” Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. “Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.” — Madeleine L'Engle Idiot Copy Share Image
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the… — Madeleine L'Engle Facts Copy Share Image
“You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren’t,” Mrs. Murry said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle Compassion Copy Share Image
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.” — Madeleine L'Engle Consumerism Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Ah,” she said, “that’s ever so much better,” and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. “My stomach is… — Madeleine L'Engle Time Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to… — Madeleine L'Engle Death and dying Copy Share Image
“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You… — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
“Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting Copy Share Image
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a… — Madeleine L'Engle Silence speaks 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
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 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
“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
“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
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow… — Madeleine L'Engle Almighty Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Chance Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Angry Copy Share Image
