850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.