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Lisa McMann

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I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
AMITY GAIGE We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory o...
DAN BROWN Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting N...
JUDY BLUME I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows ...
TOM SHADYAC Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
LOIS LOWRY His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
LOIS LOWRY Cabel flicks his fingers at her, spraying her with water. Grinning. "Sure. I think I'm pretty lucky....
LISA MCMANN The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife
LISA MCMANN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS So what, then? Pete? Clyde?"
Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep.
"It's Fred, isn't it?...
LISA MCMANN [Providence coach] Scott Gordon thinks highly of him and I trust his judgment.
DOUG MCKAY Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
HAMISH BOWLES In the cool dark basement, she whispers, "It's not Ralph, is it?"
Cabel's quiet for a moment, a...
LISA MCMANN Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Some things have to be believed to be seen.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE People are more than just the way they look.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Nam...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let g...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's alw...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In my dreams, I never have an age.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

MADELEINE L'ENGLE Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

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LISA MCMANN I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.
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LISA MCMANN And then they kiss.
Slowly, gently.
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LISA MCMANN It's just the end of some things.
And the beginning of others.
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LISA MCMANN Cabel flicks his fingers at her, spraying her with water. Grinning. "Sure. I think I'm pretty lucky....
LISA MCMANN So what, then? Pete? Clyde?"
Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep.
"It's Fred, isn't it?...
LISA MCMANN What did your mom say?"
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Janie snorts. "What the hell ...
LISA MCMANN So, what are you doing tonight?"
Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course."
You want compan...
LISA MCMANN That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. No...
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LISA Never take advice from someone who is swift to speak and slow to listen, or swift to listen and slow...
LISA Mr. Trump, I really can't comment, because he was my boss on 'Celebrity Apprentice,' and...
LISA LAMPANELLI It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
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LISA LOEB I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.
LISA SNOWDON On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in th...
LISA KUDROW I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles...
LISA SEE When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple you...
LISA MURKOWSKI One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and...
LISA GRAFF From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X f...
LISA MURKOWSKI Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primaril...
LISA BONET I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it i...
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LISA HOFFMAN Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it ha...
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LISA KLEYPAS A pity that she gets so upset about little things, isn't it?"
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LISA SEE May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do:...
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LISA KLEYPAS Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"

Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't...
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LISA KLEYPAS I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to belie...
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LISA KLEYPAS When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on.
LISA KESSLER Vegard and Riston's job today was to guard and protect me. And considering that I was in a tower roo...
LISA SHEARIN You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster.

"Wi...
LISA KLEYPAS Do you like that?” he whispered.
“Yes, I…” She fought to speak between helpless gasps....
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LISA KLEYPAS The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.
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LISA ALTHER I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of c...
LISA ALTHER A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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LISA MURKOWSKI I have no affectation when I speak.
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LISA LING I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they'...
LISA SCOTTOLINE Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods...
LISA EDELSTEIN I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard be...
LISA SCOTTOLINE Alaskans need some certainty and clarity over how the Pebble Partnership intends to proceed. I under...
LISA MURKOWSKI RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, acc...
LISA GANSKY By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effe...
LISA EDELSTEIN You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.
LISA RANDALL The best education I have ever received was through travel.
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LISA SNOWDON I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We l...
LISA WHELCHEL When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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LISA LESLIE All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. ...
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LISA WHELCHEL There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
LISA LING I don't know what to do with myself when it's sunny!
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LISA BLATT Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.
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LISA KLEYPAS Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the agg...
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LISA MURKOWSKI Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
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LISA KLEYPAS Dear Deborah,

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LISA LUTZ I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
LISA GARDNER In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5t...
LISA MORTON A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
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LISA EDELSTEIN 'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going...
LISA LAMPANELLI It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between t...
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LISA LOEB I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python...
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LISA LING If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write anoth...
LISA JAKUB For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
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LISA KLEYPAS If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.
LISA KLEYPAS I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, ...
LISA ALTHER I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
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LISA KLEYPAS You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.
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LISA KLEYPAS You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.
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LISA GUERRERO I have nothing to offer you," he finally said in a guttural voice.
"Nothing."
Win's lips h...
LISA KLEYPAS I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub ...
LISA KLEYPAS No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate...
LISA EDELSTEIN Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology no...
LISA MURKOWSKI In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our h...
LISA RINNA When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, a...
LISA LOEB If you're a disheveled, easily distracted person, it's always scary when someone asks what your plan...
LISA SMARTT Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet togethe...
LISA MANTCHEV I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was for...
LISA RANDALL Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.
LISA SCHROEDER I think people were just seriously happy to find a funny woman who does comedy like a man. Because I...
LISA LAMPANELLI What if you could meet your soul mate?" the ghost asked. "You 'd want to avoid that?"
"Hell, ye...
LISA KLEYPAS When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begi...
LISA UNGER An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Cr...
LISA RANDALL I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I jus...
LISA O'HARE I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow...
LISA KUDROW There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically...
LISA UNGER Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would g...
LISA SAMSON The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because i...
LISA KRISTINE She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c...
LISA ZARAN I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate ...
LISA BONET People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously unders...
LISA RANDALL I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna...
LISA BEDRICK There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ...
LISA LOEB My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being ov...
LISA TUTTLE Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a write...
LISA LUTZ I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of ...
LISA LOEB Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspe...
LISA RANDALL Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came fro...
LISA MURKOWSKI I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to ...
LISA MURKOWSKI The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th...
LISA KLEYPAS Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo...
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