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...
good-marriage very-good seems
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
ive-learned children-book childrens-book
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
wrath rocks wind
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
time white-collar timing-and-life
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
elation wonderful forget
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.
myth loses universe
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
pet way wrinkle-in-time
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
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.
vulnerable
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
god-is-love concerned absolutes
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.
stakes
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)
craftsman dens prove
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
hopeless wrinkle-in-time
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.