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A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

1 " A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.
The end of all is hinted in the start.

When we are born we bear the seeds of blight;
Around us life & death are torn apart,
Yet a great ring of pure and endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart.

It lights the world to my delight.
Infinity is present in each part.
A loving smile contains all art.
The motes of starlight spark & dart.
A grain of sand holds power & might.
Infinity is present in each part,
And a great ring of pure and endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

2 " There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

3 " This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

4 " If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

5 " If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

6 " Nothing loved is ever lost or perished. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

7 " Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness.”

I could hardly believe my ears. “But aren’t we supposed to be good?”

“I’m not sure.” Grandfather’s voice was heavy. “I do know that we’re not good, and there’s a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

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

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

9 " It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

10 " A good laugh heals a lot of hurts. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

11 " It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

12 " And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

13 " There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

14 " Poets are born knowing the language of angels. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

15 " Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

16 " the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

17 " I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

18 " If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

19 " There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)

20 " People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)