Susan

“All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religious
order. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young people
into an expanding imagination. Because of the very nature of the world as it is today our children
receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun,
for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as
never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or
what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.
This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid
by providing them with “explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle