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Are anybody's parents typical?

Are anybody's parents typical?

Madeleine L'Engle
Parent, Typical, Parenthood

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Madeleine L'Engle
Truth, Believe, Writing
Twitter post from Dec 29, 2010

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Book, Judgement
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.132, Open Road Media

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Creativity, Artist
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.46, Convergent Books

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Madeleine L'Engle
Writing, Discipline, Effort
Twitter post from Sep 14, 2016

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Book, Writing
Twitter post from Apr 19, 2017

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mind, Naked, Instruments
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wind in the Door”, p.98, Macmillan

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Culture, Great Art

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

Madeleine L'Engle
Laughter, Holy, Heal
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.57, Convergent Books

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

Madeleine L'Engle
Choices, Dare, Courses

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

Madeleine L'Engle
Stars, Butterfly, Harm

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mother, Mind, Great Minds
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.22, Macmillan

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

Madeleine L'Engle
Wonder, Moderation, Darling
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.17, Macmillan

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

Madeleine L'Engle
Important, Definitions
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.30, Open Road Media

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Madeleine L'Engle
Cry, Right Time
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.60, Open Road Media

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dream, Father, Eye
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.61, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Madeleine L'Engle
Compassion, Intellect, Feels
Twitter post from Feb 11, 2012

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Coercion, Way
Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle
Reality, Fire, Terrible
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.10, Open Road Media

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Book, Reading

Wild nights are my glory!

Madeleine L'Engle
Night, Glory, Wild Nights
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.26, Macmillan

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Madeleine L'Engle
Running, Listening, Being There
"Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1972.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dark, Silence, Tree
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.36, Macmillan

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

Madeleine L'Engle
Together
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.49, Macmillan

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

Madeleine L'Engle
Business, Self, Talking
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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