I 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'EngleWe do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
Madeleine L'EngleI am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .
Madeleine L'EngleWe need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.
Madeleine L'EngleIf you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
Madeleine L'Engle