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You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I suppose that depends on how you look at it," Meg said. "Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if I have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry I tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But, like all human beings, she still had unfulfilled longings. She could still be as lonely and frightened as a child, and with as little reason.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You're not responsible for how you feel. You're responsible for what you do
— Madeleine L'Engle
You know when you cut yourself really badly, it doesn't hurt for a while. You don't feel anything. Death- our reaction to death- is sort of like that. You don't feel anything at all. And then, later on, you begin to hurt.
— Madeleine L'Engle