It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
Madeleine L'EngleWe think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
Madeleine L'EngleArtists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
Madeleine L'EngleI never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
Madeleine L'Engle