850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Yet there are times when for no logical reason I feel an almost unbearable sense of isolation. Not only am I divided in myself, my underwater and above-water selves separated, but I feel wrenched away from everybody around me. This is part of being human, this knowing that we are all part of one another, inextricably involved; and at the same time alone, irrevocably alone.

I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?"I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.