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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

«You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.»
«When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.»
«If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.»
«A life lived in chaos is an impossibility»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle | Keywords: impossibility
«That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.»
«Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are»
«With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.»
«In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle | About: Faith, Forgiveness, Life, Love | Keywords: call on, come off
«She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle | Keywords: firmly, rock, The Rock