850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness.

Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see?” Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave. “Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso many y pplleasanntt thinggss tto llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.

But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, “we” and say “I”? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are “we” and “us,” a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive “we” remains. And most growth has come during times of trial.

Dare I? Of course I don’t. But I’m going to anyhow because I have no choice.

This wasn’t the first time that I’d come close to death, but it was the first time I’d been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you’ve loved.

I am a mere unicorn.” Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly.

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

Not so much of dying, if – I’m afraid of annihilation. Of not being.