“ The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I Madeleine L'Engle
“ The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know. Madeleine L'Engle
“ In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid p… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group...If a child in the… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just be… Madeleine L'Engle
“ All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pr… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the m… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies,… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Time isn’t any more important than size. All that is required of you is to be in the Now, in this moment which has been given us. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, Charles Wallace said. Why should I disillusion them? Madeleine L'Engle
“ The stars do not foretell, because what has not happened must be free to happen, as it will. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, Madeleine L'Engle
