Madeleine L'Engle

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?""I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father.""Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. __he obligations of normal human kindness _ chesed, as the Hebrew has it _ that we all owe. But there__ a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There__ a kind of vanity in goodness.__ could hardly believe my ears. __ut aren__ we supposed to be good?_____ not sure._ Grandfather__ voice was heavy. __ do know that we__e not good, and there__ a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.'I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath choses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And bade things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.

Love does not judge.

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus

Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus

Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who will follow Madoc's rhyme?Blue will alter time and space.

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God.