Madeleine L'engle said this quote

“ This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved. ”

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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

~ Madeleine L'engle

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.—Ditta

~ Madeleine L'engle

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious impossible which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

~ Madeleine L'engle