850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

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.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named