Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

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

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

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

We do not love each other without changing each other.