“ In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer… Madeleine L'Engle
“ In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality. Madeleine L'Engle
“ In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Immediately he opened a large number of eyes very wide. What a strange idea. Love isn’t feeling. If it were, I wouldn’t be able to love. Cherubim don’t have feelings. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely we are astiff-necked people; why should He not withdraw? But then I remember Jonah ac… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I doubt if it is given to the human being to understand completely the blessed passion and precious death, the mighty resurrection and glorious ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. I know that I do not… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I can’t do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven’s sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it—to the fact that I love them. Madeleine L'Engle
“ How long your closet held a whiff of you,Long after hangers hung austere and bare.I would walk in and suddenly the trueSharp sweet sweat scent controlled the airAnd life was in that small still living… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Death is the most ordinary thing in the world, and so is birth. Someone is being born at this very moment. Someone is dying. Ordinary, and yet completely extraordinary. The marvel of having my babies… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want, Madeleine L'Engle
“ But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness. Madeleine L'Engle
“ But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master pupp… Madeleine L'Engle
