850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.

Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do. I’ve never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly’.

That’s something I’ve noticed about food: whenever there’s a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.

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

It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.

And I can’t say it now. I can’t say what I want to say. I hold you – I – I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I’m loving you, only it doesn’t mean anything because you aren’t afraid. You aren’t frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn’t be able to do it.