Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

The fairy godmother or guardian angel bestows on each infant a unique gift, a gift to which the child will be responsible: a gift of healing; a gift for growing green things; a gift for painting, for cooking, for cleaning; a gift for loving.

Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.

Too often, we think of mysticism as a way to abandon the world. But the greatest practitioners of mystical spirituality know that it actually moves us back into the world.

there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.

Advent is not a time to declare, but to listen, to listen to whatever God may want to tell us through the singing of the stars, the quickening of a baby, the gallantry of a dying man.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

The moon set. The sun rose.

Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create

We can't absorb it all. We know too much, too quickly, and one of the worst effects of this avalanche of technology is the loss of compassion.

Oh, zug," Zachary grunted. "Not necessarily." The bishop smiled slightly. "Sacred rites become zug, as you so graphically put it, only when they become ends in themselves, or divisive, or self-aggrandizing.

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.

There have been many signs of a newly awakened caring in recent years, and I need to remember all the signs of goodness and hope, particularly after I look at the paper or listen to the news. We are one planet, a single organism

Or don't allow yourself to want something you're not going to have the courage to accept when you get it.

Anaral shook her head. "It is not in the goddess's nature to destroy. She sends blessings. It is us, it is people who are destructive." She left the tent abruptly.

No. You can't go back to Patrick. It's possible that you can go forward to him, but only you can know that. If you tried to go back then you'd only have to leave all over again. Nothing can ever be repeated. Ever.

I don't understand ypur feelings. I'm trying to, but I don't. It must be extremly unpleasant to have feelings.

Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.

They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock— wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching— and eyes how many eyes can a drive of dragons have? and small jets of flame

there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.

The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of the joy.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.

Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create," Charles Wallace said. "This fire is to help and heal.