“ I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person. Madeleine L'Engle
“ He's not good for you, Omio said. He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give. Madeleine L'Engle
“ And another lovely paradox: we can be humble only when we know that we are God’s children, of infinite value, and eternally loved. Madeleine L'Engle
“ A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Nothing in the chemical world vanishes. Everything that is in the world remains in some form or other. Decaying matter turns into mould and gases and is regenerated and becomes living matter again. I… Madeleine L'Engle
“ You might call IT the Boss. Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist. Madeleine L'Engle
“ You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create i… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We don’t have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. Fo… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. Madeleine L'Engle
“ So the challenge I face with children is the redemption of adulthood. We must make it evident that maturity is the fulfillment of childhood and adolescence, not a diminishing; that it is an affirmatio… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Remember, he hasn’t much imagination. Or, rather, it’s been frozen for a long while and hasn’t had time to thaw. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. I’m all confused again. Oh, so ’m I, Calvin said gaily. But now at least I know we’re going somewhere. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Madeleine L'Engle
