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“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“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

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“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

“In reading we must become creators.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

“You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Section 1.10 <!-- p. 30 -->
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is.
Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

“On the other side of pain, there is still love.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“It was a dark and stormy night.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“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 book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“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 A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.

—Ditta”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: The Joys of Love

“Wild nights are my glory!”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Art is communication.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art