Between YA books, I'm reading on a Madeleine L'Engle book. A Circle of Quiet is the first of four Crosswicks Journals, thoughts she wrote while at her family's summer home in Connecticut.Madeleine L'Engle is without a doubt one of my favorite writers of all time. (I would name a child after her.) I find affirmation, inspiration, and challenge in her words.
Some quotations from today's reading:
- If we are given minds we are required to use them, but not limit ourselves by them.
- The creative impulse, like love, cannot be taught. What a teacher or librarian or parent can do, in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn.
- In a good story we find out very quickly about the hero the things we want to know about ourselves.
And my favorite, her response to a student's question:
'Mrs. Franklin, do you really and truly believe in God with no doubts at all?'
'Oh, Una, I really and truly believe in God with all kinds of doubts.'
But I base my life on this belief.
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