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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Madeleine L'Engle
Pain, Giving, Littles
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.62, Macmillan

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Madeleine L'Engle
Giving, Dies, Ifs
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.111, Macmillan

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Laughter, Giving Up
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.68, Macmillan

My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

Madeleine L'Engle
Husband, Musical, Trying
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from May 06, 2016

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Madeleine L'Engle
Feet, Dignity, Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.20, Macmillan

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

Madeleine L'Engle
Tests, Joyful
Twitter post from Nov 03, 2016

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Writing, Character
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.130, Open Road Media

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Jobs, Worry, Able
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.25, Open Road Media

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

Madeleine L'Engle
Able, Wrinkle In Time, Knows

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

Madeleine L'Engle
Moving, Home, Maturity
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Madeleine L'Engle
Real, Thinking, Doe
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.133, Open Road Media

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mean, Acceptance, Thinking
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

Madeleine L'Engle
Beautiful, Flower
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.65, Macmillan

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Madeleine L'Engle
Able, Explanation, Humans
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.33, Macmillan

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mind, Helping
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.41, Open Road Media

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Madeleine L'Engle
Unhappy, Sometimes, How To Be Happy
Madeleine L'Engle, Linda Beech (1997). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

Madeleine L'Engle
Home, Vacation, Going Away
Madeleine L'Engle (1960). “Meet the Austins”, Laurel Leaf

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

Madeleine L'Engle
Light, Dancing, Darkness
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.295, Macmillan

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

Madeleine L'Engle
Psychics, New Years Resolution, Intuition
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.213, Macmillan

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Madeleine L'Engle
Food, People, Cooking
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Moon by Night”, p.18, Macmillan

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle
Life, Wrinkle In Time, Stills
Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.40, Obelix Books

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

Madeleine L'Engle
Meg, Wrinkle In Time, Equal

In my dreams, I never have an age.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dream, Age
Twitter post from Nov 29, 2017

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

Madeleine L'Engle
Lonely, Space, Earth
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 25, 2016

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Madeleine L'Engle
Teamwork, Jobs, Book
"Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck". www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.

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