Meg__ eyes were too bright. __ wish human beings couldn__ have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
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Madeleine L'Engle
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Madeleine L'Engle currently has 224 indexed quotes and 26 linked works on QuoteMust. This page is the canonical destination for that author archive.
Works
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A Circle of Quiet
A Ring of Endless Light
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Wind in the Door
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
An Acceptable Time
And Both Were Young
Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation
Certain Women
Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections
Love Letters
Many Waters
Meet the Austins
Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings
Swiftly Tilting Planet
The Arm of the Starfish
The Irrational Season
The Joys of Love
The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
The Other Side of the Sun
The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
Walking on Water
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Quotes
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There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.
Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my information?""What do you know about us?""I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled.""It is beautiful," Meg said defensively.She felt a rippling of his wings. "In the middle of your cities?""Well-no-but I don't live in a city.""And is your planet peaceful?""Well-no-it isn't very peaceful.""I had the idea," Proginoskes moved reluctantly within her mind, "that there are wars on your planet. People fighting and killing each other.""Yes, that's so, but-""And children go hungry.""Yes.""And people don't understand each other.""Not always.""And there's-there's hate?""Yes."She felt Proginoskes pulling away. "All I want to do," he was murmuring to himself, "is go some place quiet and recite the names of the stars...
Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.