And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.
Madeleine L'EngleWhen a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
Madeleine L'EngleI looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.
Madeleine L'EngleAll 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