850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.