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'EngleTo create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
Madeleine L'EngleI wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
Madeleine L'EngleA long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.
Madeleine L'Engle