Madeleine L'Engle Time Quotations

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.