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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 - September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science. Tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, and organ regeneration in The Arm of the Starfish

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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything.
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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