Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conc... - Madeleine L'Engle

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

"Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving."

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