“ As a child, when I came across a word I didn’t know, I didn’t stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant;… Madeleine L'Engle
“ And perhaps if we ever have real equality with all our glorious differences, the language itself will make the appropriate changes. For language, like a story or a painting, is alive. Ultimately it wi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage. Madeleine L'Engle
“ O God,here, as so often, I cannot help.Let me not forget she is your childand your concern makes mine as nothing. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Imagination; it’s their own world, the world of their daily life, and it’s our loss that so many of us grow out of it. Probably this group here tonight is the least grown-out-of-it group that could be… Madeleine L'Engle
“ You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren’t, Mrs. Murry said. Madeleine L'Engle
“ You’re good in school. Everybody likes you. For all the most unimportant reasons, Calvin said. There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level a… Madeleine L'Engle
“ You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn. Madeleine L'Engle
“ When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against g… Madeleine L'Engle
“ What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. Madeleine L'Engle
“ What I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose Madeleine L'Engle
“ We don't 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 can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irration… Madeleine L'Engle
“ To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future. Madeleine L'Engle
“ This book that defied the categories has now endured for more than half a century, finding new readers in each generation. What is its secret? And what kind of person could produce such a book? Madele… Madeleine L'Engle
“ There was yesterday, which was gone, which was only a dream. There was tomorrow, which was a vision not unlike today. When was always Now, for there was little looking either backward or forward in th… Madeleine L'Engle
