Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. Furthermore, we agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to whom, in truth, you are.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

— Madeleine L'Engle

Believing takes practice.

— Madeleine L'Engle

But Being time is never wasted time. When we are Being, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on Kearns, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.

— Madeleine L'Engle

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

— Madeleine L'Engle