“ It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I'm a very old woman, Simon, and in the nature of things I don't have a great deal longer to live. But I've already so far outlived normal life expectancy, and I'm so fascinated by the extraordinary b… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life,… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner Madeleine L'Engle
“ He said, There’s a sermon of John Donne’s I have often had cause to remember during my lifetime. He says, Other men’s crosses are not my crosses. We all have our own cross to carry, and one is all mos… Madeleine L'Engle
“ God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that the people do no want freedom. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Fore WordPoetry and prayer are synonymous in my life, and because both are a gift, which I accept with joy and sometimes pain, I seldom know whether I have served the gift well or ill. But perhaps tha… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here.Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything, Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkl… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg, her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before he went away. There’s nothing the matter with his mind. He just does… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But we outgrow this spontaneity and forget the completeness of the circle of blessing. Once again we have come to think of happiness as material prosperity, as affluence. This is the consumer mentalit… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. Madeleine L'Engle
“ All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversel… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Ah, she said, that’s ever so much better, and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. My stomach is full and I’m warm inside and out and it’s time I went home. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave. Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin! Madeleine L'Engle
“ A village is very much like boarding school (I was in boarding schools for ten years, so I know whereof I talk): let any threat come from outside, and everybody, old and new, Republican and Democrat,… Madeleine L'Engle
