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...
pain giving littles
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
hate book reading
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.
giving ifs dies
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
letting-go ashes world
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
art laughter giving-up
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
life important too-much
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
mind helping
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
hopeless wrinkle-in-time
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
matter painful difficult
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
real taught eternity
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
unhappy sometimes how-to-be-happy
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
father want want-him
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
dirty walks
you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
two people needs
It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.