“Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from Many Waters
“Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from Many Waters
“He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was not worth losing his ability to touch a unicorn.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from Many Waters
“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from Many Waters
“Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from Many Waters
Madeleine L'Engle
Born place: in New York City, New York, The United States
Born date November 29, 1918
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“And working from the left to the right always, embrace the first petal of the holy rose,”
― Kathleen McGowan, quote from The Book of Love
“Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.”
― Louisa May Alcott, quote from A Long Fatal Love Chase
“Odder still, most Americans consume with abandon something that never occurred in nature - a pathogenic putrefactive product called cheese. We make cheese by taking the casein portion of milk an rotting it with types of bacteria that yield by-products that many palates have come to appreciate. Cheese represents about all the decomposition products in a single package: putrefactive proteins, fermented carbohydrates, and rancid fats.”
― Douglas N. Graham, quote from The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life, One Luscious Bite at a Time
“Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.”
― Mary Baker Eddy, quote from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.”
― Robert Liparulo, quote from House of Dark Shadows
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