“ It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still had to go on writing. I'm glad I made this decision in a moment of failure. It's easy to sa… Madeleine L'Engle
“ IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT.In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Beh… Madeleine L'Engle
“ For me, this book activates both transparency and resistance. It urges us to open ourselves up to those hurts, those tribulations, those disappointments, those doubts, those uncertainties. All of whic… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, we and say I? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are we and us, a new creature born of the time o… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other peopl… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Are you fighting the Black Thing? Meg asked. Oh, yes, Aunt Beast replied. In doing that, we can never relax. We are called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of cours… Madeleine L'Engle
“ And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God. 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...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be on… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love whi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Us when you aren’t happy. But I must know what happens to the children, the Medium said. It’s my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn’t get fond I could be happy all the time. Oh, well, ho hum, I ma… Madeleine L'Engle
“ To look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. Madeleine L'Engle
“ All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Madeleine L'Engle
“ You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is complet… Madeleine L'Engle
