“ The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have wor… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The earth will never be the same againRock, water, tree, iron, share this greifAs distant stars participate in the pain.A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf,A dolphin death, O this particular loss… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Tell your sister I’m all right, Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. Tell her my intentions are good. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Charles intoned. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age. Madeleine L'Engle
“ So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Silence is dangerousWe never permit it.Our vocabulary may not be largeBut there is no question that we put itto constant use.That’s what things are for:to be used. And used.And used.Who knows?If we di… Madeleine L'Engle
“ She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she alwa… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Perhaps one of the most compelling and moving descriptions of that internal battle comes near the end of the book, when Mrs Whatsit tells the children that life, with its rules, its obligations, and i… Madeleine L'Engle
“ People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Mrs Whatsit was surely no longer a Mrs Whatsit. She was a marble-white body with powerful flanks, something like a horse but at the same time completely unlike a horse, for from the magnificently mode… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one e… Madeleine L'Engle
“ La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge. Madeleine L'Engle
“ It’s all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I’d never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We e… Madeleine L'Engle
“ In this way I have sat in many rooms and walked in many gardens, and it has been as though I were a stick of furniture or a branch of a tree. I seem to have caused no sense of restraint or embarrassme… Madeleine L'Engle
“ If the work comes to the artist and says, 'Here I am, serve me,' then the job of the artist, great or small, is to serve. The amount of the artist's talent is not what it is about. Jean Rhys said to a… Madeleine L'Engle
“ If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; the… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud.Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I like here to think of another Fred, the eminent British scientist Fred Hoyle, and his theory of the universe, in which matter is continuously being created, with the universe expanding but not dissi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith un… Madeleine L'Engle
