850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

We don’t have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place. Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through stars.

It’s my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn’t get fond I could be happy all the time.

You’re going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

And there’s no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; it doesn’t hurt nearly as much as remaining open.

The stars do not foretell, because what has not happened must be free to happen, as it will.

The lines of love cross time and space.

It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.