The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
Madeleine L'EngleQui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Madeleine L'Engle