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For a moment her brain reeled with confusion. Then came a moment of blazing truth. “No!” she cried triumphantly. “Like and equal are not the same thing at all!”

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody, and you're stuck with it. The Arm of the Starfish

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grownups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten. Walking on Water

This is perhaps the most difficult lesson of all to learn. If we love God, then we must also love each other. Indeed it would be a good and joyful thing if all God’s children could learn to dwell together in unity. Sold Into Egypt

“…what mostly appealed to me...was the notion that you actually could get your father back. And that you as the girl, as the girl who felt so clueless, actually had means within yourself to pull yourself together and be brave enough to do it.” Sarah Lyall buff.ly/444NAvI

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“You see!” the Medium cried, smiling happily. “It can be overcome! It is being overcome all the time!” A Wrinkle in Time

I do not believe that God wills cancer, or multiple sclerosis...I know only that el can come into whatever happens, and by being part of it, can return it to wholeness. This is a large part of the meaning of incarnation. Nothing ever happens to us alone. It happens to God, too.

“Memories are important, something that is shown all the more clearly by the loss of them. This book is L’Engle’s way of ensuring that her mother is not forgotten, even if L’Engle herself should one day start to forget.” Claire at The Captive Reader buff.ly/3JSFoX8

A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. from Madeleine’s Newbery Medal acceptance speech

Inspiration far more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of the artist is to listen to the work and to go where it tells him to go. Walking on Water

“It is easier, prophet, to destroy the entire universe than to prepare this vine in whose shade we now relax.” The Journey with Jonah

"A Live Coal in the Sea is from William Langland, who wrote in 1400, "All the wickedness in the world that man might do or say was no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea." leaderu.com/marshill/mhr04…

“Progo, what is it? What happened?” “The Echthroi have Xed.” “What?” “Annihilated. Negated. Extinguished. Xed.” A Wind in the Door

I know that hate can unleash vast energies, but so can love. Sometimes when more than the usual feeble human love is called for, there comes a surge of loving power to fill the need. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

Science, literature, art, theology: it is all the same ridiculous, glorious, mysterious language. A Circle of Quiet

If we allow ourselves to be limited to the known and the explainable, we have thereby closed ourselves off from God and mystery and revelation. A Stone for a Pillow

"I do not have much capacity for faith, but I have always had a lot of room in my life for awe, and that was something I found in A Wrinkle in Time as well as in the books that came after it." Alex Luppens-Dale for Book Riot, from Sept, 2022 bookriot.com/who-was-madele…

Not deleting this account but won't be posting anymore here. If anyone has an invite to the other place send an email or dm? -cjv

80 years ago Madeleine got her first equity contract! It was for the tour of Uncle Harry with Eva LeGallienne and Joseph Schildkraut. She wrote her first novel THE SMALL RAIN waiting in the wings for her small speaking role.