“ Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see? Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave. Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso many y pplle… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Like everything else—Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads— it’s falling apart. It’s not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn’t be safe in school. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete… Madeleine L'Engle
“ IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terribl… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I like the name writing practices better than Creative Writing. As I have said, nobody can teach creative writing—run like mad from anybody who thinks he can. But one can teach practices, like finger… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of them alone together., their feet almost noiseless on the rusty car… Madeleine L'Engle
“ For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lo… Madeleine L'Engle
“ For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that b… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But you're good at basketball and things, Meg protested. 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… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home? Madeleine L'Engle
“ Below them the town was laid out in harsh angular patterns. The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, wi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countles… Madeleine L'Engle
“ A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old, a born writer who came to Harlem from Panama five years ago, and… Madeleine L'Engle
“ . . For that he was a spirit too delicateTo act their earthy and abhorr’d commands,Refusing their grand hests, they did confine himBy help of their most potent ministers,And in their most unmitigable… Madeleine L'Engle
“ When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place. Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The Greeks had a word for ultimate self-consciousness which I find illuminating: hubris: pride: pride in the sense of putting oneself in the center of the universe. The strange and terrible thing is t… Madeleine L'Engle
