Kristine

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet