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Famous Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
“If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.”
“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”
“Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named”
“I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.”
“The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”
“you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.”
“You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.”
“If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”
“Nothing important is completely explicable.”
“anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.”
“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”
“wherever there's laughter, there is heaven”
“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”
“poets are born knowing the language of angels”
“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”
“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”