“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...” — Madeleine L'Engle Business Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“I like to understand things,” Meg said. “We all do. But it isn’t always possible.” — Madeleine L'Engle Learning Copy Share Image
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don’t you, dear sister?” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . . — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
“Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.” — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
“Tell your sister I’m all right,” Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. “Tell her my intentions are good.” “The road to hell is… — Madeleine L'Engle Good intentions Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very… — Madeleine L'Engle Evening Copy Share Image
“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God… — Madeleine L'Engle Creator Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
“It isn’t just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we’ve… — Madeleine L'Engle Unreason Copy Share Image
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Chemistry Copy Share Image
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage 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 Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“How did all this happen? Isn't it wonderful? I feel as though I were just be ing born! I'm not alone anymore!… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but… — Madeleine L'Engle Aging Copy Share Image
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle Cry Copy Share Image
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. — Madeleine L'Engle Character Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
