I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .
Madeleine L'EngleNow 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'EngleNo matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
Madeleine L'Engle