“ Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must… Madeleine L'Engle
“ All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we… Madeleine L'Engle
“ All my life the people I have loved—Ilsa, Cousin Anna, Silver, Myra Turnbull, Joshua Tisbury—have accepted me as a friend, have confided in me—but, somehow, there has been no actual contact made. It h… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no longer have any real meaning for us. ...When will we be able to redeem o… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Девочка решила, что стоит сварить себе горячего какао. Это немного приободрит ее, и даже если крышу сорвет ветром, Мэг не унесет вместе с нею. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the… Madeleine L'Engle
“ You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art. Madeleine L'Engle
“ When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center. Madeleine L'Engle
“ When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. Madeleine L'Engle
“ To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness. Madeleine L'Engle
“ To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to… Madeleine L'Engle
“ There’s something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. Madeleine L'Engle
“ There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones. Madeleine L'Engle
