“ It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time. Madeleine L'Engle
“ It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different f… Madeleine L'Engle
“ It isn’t just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we’ve hardly been aware of it. But think of the things going on in ou… Madeleine L'Engle
“ It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsai… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I was only just beginning to realize what a horribly destructive thing hate is, how it destroys inwards as well as outwards. I Madeleine L'Engle
“ I saw Eternity the other night,Like a great ring of pure and endless light,All calm, as it was bright,And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years,Driven by the spheres,Like a vast shadow moved,… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I place all Heaven with its power And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds wi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Even though she was used to Mrs. Whatsit's odd getup (and the very oddness of it was what made her seem so comforting), she realized with a fresh shock that it was not Mrs. Whatsit herself that she wa… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts. Madeleine L'Engle
“ And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. Madeleine L'Engle
“ And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters. Madeleine L'Engle
“ You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families. Richard said, There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art. Madeleine L'Engle
“ William James wrote: Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness,… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain. Madeleine L'Engle
