Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science...
night glory wild-nights
Wild nights are my glory!
goodbye firsts strange
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
ends
It was not an end, it was a beginging
three four fifteen
I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .
laughter selfish real
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
choices ability ability-to-choose
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
together
You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
wonder moderation darling
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.
education asking discouraging
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
mom light perfect
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.
grace suspicious
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
acceptance intuition intellectual
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
important definitions
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
peace heart needs
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.