We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. Madeleine L'Engle stories children way Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-time hopeless If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. Madeleine L'Engle sock fate giving 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 breathing oxygen air We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it. Madeleine L'Engle growing-up children fall She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. Madeleine L'Engle rocks grandma past Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust. Madeleine L'Engle growing-up hurt children I do not know everything; still many things I understand. Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-time stills life God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are. Madeleine L'Engle thinking I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. Madeleine L'Engle ontology drunk essence Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-time meg equal Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted. Madeleine L'Engle sunset stars taken We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. Madeleine L'Engle mature life way It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. Madeleine L'Engle writing book hands In my dreams, I never have an age. Madeleine L'Engle age dream When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. Madeleine L'Engle symphony angel art In reading we must become creators. Madeleine L'Engle creator reading Experiment is the mother of knowledge. Madeleine L'Engle experiments mother I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. Madeleine L'Engle alive summer knows 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. Madeleine L'Engle meg people thinking
