The best Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

A Ring of Endless Light

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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.

Life Hurting

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Memories Age

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Faith

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Writing

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Shadow and light are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other.

The Legend of Zelda in The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess

Light Shadows

There's always a little light in the darkness.

Jackie Estecado in The Darkness

Light Darkness

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Loyalty Darkness

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Darkness Night Stars

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Life Death Suicide

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Albus Dumbledore in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Hurting

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Jane Fonda

Hurting

Abby: "I didn't want you to get hurt."
Max: "That's funny. That's what everyone who keeps hurting me keeps saying!"

Maxine Baker in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 10

Hurting

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Memories Death Grief & Condolence

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Memories Moments

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

Memories Laughing & Smile

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Youth Age Generations

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.

Conductor in The Polar Express

Faith

Sometimes I believe in as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Faith

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

And for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

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