Madeleine L'Engle

"Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"If we aren’t capable of being hurt, we aren’t capable of feeling joy."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"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."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"A good laugh heals a lot of hurts."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”"

- Madeleine L'Engle

"The best thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation—coming home again."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible."

- Madeleine L'Engle