Sunday, April 25, 2010

a few excerpts from "two-part invention" by madeleine l'engle

first off, anyone who is married, is getting married, wants to get married, or know someone who might someday want to be married to another human being should read this book.


"I am grateful that Hugh [her husband] and I didn't meet until we had both learned at least a little more about other people and about ourselves than we knew during those early years of painful growth."

"...anyone who could love so vocally, who found it so necessary to reiterate out loud the depths of his passion, might not, in reality, be very deep."

"...what connects us human beings is far more central than that which separates us..."

"Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers - ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes."

"I don't think I would love a man who never dared to do anything crazy."

"It is a terrible choice: the purifying fire of the creator or the deathly cold fire of Satan."

"...the more people I love, the more vulnerable I am."

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