850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.

Curled up on one of her pillows a gray fluff of kitten yawned, showing its pink tongue, tucked its head under again, and went back to sleep.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which