Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

When Zachary saw Annie, he entered the circles of overlapping time. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

It's better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That's one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.

What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?

Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.

It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.

They're a good family...One can tell a great deal around a dinner table...I think the closest we ever come in this naughty world to realizing unity in diversity is around a family table. I felt it at their table, the wholeness of the family unit, freely able to expand to include friends, to include me even through Austin's and my suspicions of each other, and yet each person in that unit complete, individual, unique, valued.

The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.