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'EngleDuring the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.
Madeleine L'EngleOur truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
Madeleine L'Engle