Top 100 L'engle's Quotes
#2. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,
Madeleine L'Engle
#3. And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
L.M. Montgomery
#4. In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
Madeleine L'Engle
#5. Ah," she said, "that's ever so much better," and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. "My stomach is full and I'm warm inside and out and it's time I went home.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
Victor L. Wooten
#7. Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.
M.L. Stephens
#8. Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.
E.L. Doctorow
#9. It doesn't work like that. We don't earn love ... it's a gift we're given.
A.L. Jackson
#10. Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
Madeleine L'Engle
#11. The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?
Madeleine L'Engle
#12. That's the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live - to live in the present and to look forward to the future.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#13. That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them.
L.M. Montgomery
#14. Let's toast," he said, eyes as cold as a January morning. "To a very unlikely, and very temporary, partnership.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#15. Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. I think you need to look in the mirror if you think that's gorgeous"
"Ha," Andrew said, grinning.
"We"re identical." Adam shook his head at his twin. "He's insulting both of us, you idiot
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#17. Hide the scars, let us pretend. If you burry deep enough, no one can find them.
S.L. Northey
#18. I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.
L'Wren Scott
#19. Poppy: Um, can we cross running water?
James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.
L.J.Smith
#20. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.
Brandi L. Bates
#21. Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.
M.L. Stedman
#22. I spun and jogged around the SUV. Climbing in I readjusted the seat from Godzilla setting to Normal so my feet could reach the pedals.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#23. Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#24. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes contracted. When the final point of black was lost in blue he turned away from the red eyes, looked at Meg, and smiled sweetly, but the smile was not Charles Wallaces smile.
Madeleine L'Engle
#26. Your intuition and your intellect should be working together ... making love. That's how it works best.
Madeleine L'Engle
#27. From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry.
Calvin fell to his knees.
"No," Mrs. Whatsit said, though her voice was not Mrs. Whatsit's voice. "Not to me Calvin. Never to me. Stand up.
Madeleine L'Engle
#28. It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
Madeleine L'Engle
#29. The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#30. Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
Madeleine L'Engle
#31. All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
Madeleine L'Engle
#32. We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
Dan Brown
#34. Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.
Madeleine L'Engle
#35. The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.
Madeleine L'Engle
#36. Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
Madeleine L'Engle
#37. Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.
'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.
'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
Madeleine L'Engle
#38. Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.
Madeleine L'Engle
#39. Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.
Madeleine L'Engle
#41. Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
Madeleine L'Engle
#43. As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.
Madeleine L'Engle
#45. But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified; there's the marvel. It may be that the qualified feel no need of them.
Madeleine L'Engle
#46. If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
Madeleine L'Engle
#47. 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.
Madeleine L'Engle
#48. I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
Tom Shadyac
#49. 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.
Madeleine L'Engle
#50. I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud.
"Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
Madeleine L'Engle
#52. I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.
Madeleine L'Engle
#53. We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
#54. Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
Madeleine L'Engle
#55. Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
Madeleine L'Engle
#56. And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
Madeleine L'Engle
#57. For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.
Madeleine L'Engle
#58. Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know
any of us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#59. Lords of blue and Lords of gold,
Lords of wind and waters wild,
Lords of time that's growing old,
When will come the season mild?
When will come blue Madoc's child?
Madeleine L'Engle
#60. That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.
Madeleine L'Engle
#61. If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
Madeleine L'Engle
#62. There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#64. Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, It's my own business.
Madeleine L'Engle
#66. Meg cut up some celery and mixed it in with the tuna. After a moment's hesitation she opened the refrigerator door and brought out a jar of little sweet pickles.-Though why I'm doing it for her I don't know, she thought, as she cut them up.-I don't trust her one bit.
Madeleine L'Engle
#67. If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
Madeleine L'Engle
#68. I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
Madeleine L'Engle
#69. The name of God is so awe-full, so unpronounceable, that it has never been used by any of his creatures. Indeed, it is said that if, inadvertently, the great and terrible name of God should be spoken, the universe would explode.
Madeleine L'Engle
#70. 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
Madeleine L'Engle
#71. It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
Madeleine L'Engle
#72. That's a sure way to tell about somebody
the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#74. It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
Madeleine L'Engle
#75. If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
Madeleine L'Engle
#76. He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.
Madeleine L'Engle
#77. 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
Madeleine L'Engle
#78. You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
Madeleine L'Engle
#79. As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
Madeleine L'Engle
#80. The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#81. I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.
Madeleine L'Engle
#82. Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. What you think is not the point. What you do is what's going to count.
Madeleine L'Engle
#84. Okay, Polly," her grandfather said. "Let's have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
Madeleine L'Engle
#86. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Madeleine L'Engle
#87. Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.
Madeleine L'Engle
#88. Remember, he hasn't much imagination. Or, rather, it's been frozen for a long while and hasn't had time to thaw.
Madeleine L'Engle
#89. ...and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.
Madeleine L'Engle
#90. But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#91. It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#92. That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
Madeleine L'Engle
#94. Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave. "Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.
Madeleine L'Engle
#95. There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.
Madeleine L'Engle
#96. Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go."
"Not a bad ability."
" ... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#97. Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.
Madeleine L'Engle
#98. It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.
Madeleine L'Engle
#99. The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#100. 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.
Madeleine L'Engle
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