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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless."
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. "The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness." I could hardly believe my ears. "But aren't we supposed to be good?" "I'm not sure." Grandfather's voice was heavy. "I do know that we're not good, and there's a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
Nothing loved is ever lost or perished."
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.
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Madeleine L'Engle _ A Ring of Endless Light
If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou And hast such shrewd activity That when He comes He says This is enow Unto itself - 'twere better let it be It is so small and full there is no room for me.
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