Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science...
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myth loses universe
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
names wrinkles wrinkle-in-time
A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
pet way wrinkle-in-time
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
insane asylums illness
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
moments contagious
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.
journey born
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
aunt looks beast
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
important
Nothing important is completely explicable.
memories winter fire
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta
pain sides stills
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
wrinkle-in-time
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
balance important depends
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
dream flying able
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
wish asking answers
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.