Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.
Madeleine L'Engleyou've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
Madeleine L'EngleI've always thought about the theatre like a Christmas tree, all shining and bright with beautiful ornaments. But now it seems like a Christmas tree with the tinsel all tarnished and the colored balls all fallen off and broken...'
Sure, I know what you mean...And it's both ways...Some of the ornaments fall and break and some stay clear and bright. Some of the tinsel gets tarnished and some stays shining and beautiful like the night before Christmas. Nothing's ever all one way. You know that. It's all mixed up and you've just got to find the part that's right for you.'
—Elizabeth and Ben
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
Madeleine L'EngleYou don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: family
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
Madeleine L'EngleWe have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: identity courage bravery
Nothing important is completely explicable.
Madeleine L'EngleLike all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
Madeleine L'EngleIt is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: imagination theory discovery
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