Madeleine L’Engle


American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer best known for novel "A Wrinkle In Time" winning the John Newbery Medal

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You've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!


You can always tell Schubert by that sadness that's under everything he writes, even the merriest stuff.

What happens to what's happened?




When we fall as we always do, we pick ourselves up and start again. And when our trust is betrayed the only response that is not destructive is to trust again. Not stupidly you understand, but fully aware of the facts, we still have to trust.

You don?t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you?ll ever learn.

What I think is that if we're still around after we die, it will be more like those moments when we let go, than the way we are most of the time. It'll be--it'll be the self beyond the self we know




when you put something into words, it leads to so many other thoughts


What is forever? It cannot be in time, because time can be measured, and forever cannot. Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place (dark of night in New York; grey of morning in Beja). Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through stars.

Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason there'd have been no room for the child.

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

What is my own shadow? If we all had the ability to recognize our shadows we might not be driven by them.



When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

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