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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Madeleine L'Engle quotes

American Novelist November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007

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Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do."
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and..."
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
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love, nor can the..."
Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love, nor can the floods drown it. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of..."
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Love is the one surprise."
Love is the one surprise. Madeleine L'Engle
It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "I love, therefore I am vulnerable."
I love, therefore I am vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn. Madeleine L'Engle
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. 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. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get..."
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a..."
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...' --Bishop Colubra Madeleine L'Engle
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career. Madeleine L'Engle
I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to... Madeleine L'Engle
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real. Madeleine L'Engle
How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly the true. Sharp sweet sweat scent controlled the air. And life was in that small still living breath. Where are you? since so much of you is here, Your unique odour quite ignoring death. My hands reach out to touch, to hold what's dear. And vital in my longing empty arms. But other clothes fill up the space, your space, And scent on scent send out strange false alarms. Not of your... Madeleine L'Engle

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