Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“Thee onnlly wway ttoo ccope withh ssometthingg ddeadly sseriouss iss ttoo ttry ttoo trreatt itt a llittlle lligghtly.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“the end of the day we’re all animals. We need to be shown our pee ell a see ee. A little clarity will go…

— Arundhati Roy

“But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby's being, in his way, rather a meditative and poetical man; loving to walk in Staple…

— Charles Dickens

“How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with…

— Virginia Woolf

“a subterranean murmur. It may sound like one of the many separate voices that make up the sounds of a creek. Or it may…

— Anne Lamott

“Speak to me, fair maid! Speak and do not go! What sorrows have your eyes inlaid With such black woe? My dam is buried…

— Alison Croggon

“We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then. "Oh, why…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“For the next half-hour or so there was nothing to be done but sit and suffer it. We had Madame Tetrazzini trilling about the…

— Gillian Linscott

“Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its…

— Mark Twain

“He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer…

— Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus

“I think that the lady dies not because she leaves the tower for the outside world but because she lets herself float through the…

— Libba Bray