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  1. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wrinkle in Time

    -Katherine Paterson
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  2. Madeleine L'Engle _ Two-Part Invention: The Story

    But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, "we" and say "I"? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are "we" and "us," a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive "we" remains. And most growth has come during times of trial.
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  3. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wind in the Door

    Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.
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  4. Madeleine L'Engle _ And Both Were Young

    Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
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  5. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wrinkle in Time

    Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible.What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?
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  6. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, 'but I've discovered that I can't live as though I didn't believe in him. As long as I don't need to say any more than that I try to live as though I believe in God, I would very much like to come to church--if you'll let me.
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  7. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    There's something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
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  8. Madeleine L'Engle _ Bright Evening Star: Mystery

    Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.
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  9. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light

    We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other
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  10. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.
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  11. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Joys of Love

    Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.
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  12. Madeleine L'Engle _ Love Letters

    Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don't forget that he never promised he'd say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . . That he cares . . . That is all. Nothing else.
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