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Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset

Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.

Madeleine L'Engle
Emotional, Upset, Theatre
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.171, Macmillan

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Madeleine L'Engle
Character, Risk, Suffering

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mom, Mother, Light
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.73, Open Road Media

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hate, Book, Reading

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspirational, Life, Creativity
1982 A Severed Wasp.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Madeleine L'Engle
Ifs
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.58, Macmillan

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Angel, Symphony
Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Severed Wasp: A Novel”, p.112, Open Road Media

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

Madeleine L'Engle
Grief, Emotional, Long
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.143, Open Road Media

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle
Vulnerable
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.157, Convergent Books

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Book, Writing, Order
Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.32, Open Road Media

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle
Life, Important, Energy

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hater, Hurt, Hate Me
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.396, Macmillan

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Madeleine L'Engle
Rigidity

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

Madeleine L'Engle
May, Sin, Natural

Love is the one surprise.

Madeleine L'Engle
Love Is, Surprise
Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.206, WaterBrook

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dirty, Walks
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.179, Macmillan

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle
Growing Up, Maturity, Alive
Twitter post from Dec 03, 2010

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Madeleine L'Engle
Virtue, Grows, Humans
Twitter post from Dec 13, 2011

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

Madeleine L'Engle
Silence, Response, Refuse
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Madeleine L'Engle
Failure, Exhausting
Twitter post from Mar 19, 2011

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Moments, Contagious
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.73, Open Road Media

It was not an end, it was a beginging

Madeleine L'Engle
Ends

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

Madeleine L'Engle
Love You, Mean, Loving You

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

Madeleine L'Engle
Artist, Long, Suffering
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.119, Convergent Books

If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Writing, May
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.102, Convergent Books

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