“ Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person. Madeleine L'Engle
“ They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could h… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from death?Who will stop the coming night?Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from death? Madeleine L'Engle
“ An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my information?""What do you know about us?""I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it i… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Emily looked over at Courtney. He was still asleep. For a long time she had thought that if you loved anyone you had to tell him everything: go to him and confess as in the dream; there could be no se… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us. Madeleine L'Engle
“ --So we reached our decisions simultaneously, and apart, and if I knew that Court was fighting a battle, did he, too, sense mine? Did it have anything to do with his coming back to life again? For he… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Is it that bad, Mrs. Bowen?" Clement asked.Emily shook her head. "Gertrude's been hurt and so she's generalizing. It's a pretty good country on the whole, and the people in it, too. We have our faults… Madeleine L'Engle
“ One thing I have discovered since I've been ill, though, is that nobody ever knows anybody, and maybe least of all the people who are closest to them. Sort of a business of not being able to see the t… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. Madeleine L'Engle
“ A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.The end of all is hinted in the start.When we are born we bear the seeds of blight;Around… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, It's my own business. Madeleine L'Engle
“ You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If our lives are truly hid with Christ in God, the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter ho… Madeleine L'Engle
“ It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. Madeleine L'Engle
