"Madeleine L'Engle is one of the wise women not only of our time but of the ages. She would be comfortable in the company of Sappho and Sophocles, Dante and Chaucer, Macdonald and Dostoyevsky, and they would rejoice in hers. She understands, as they did, that, confronted by the mysteries at the heart of the cosmos - the mysteries of union and separation, of progress and retreat, of good and evil - one must enlist in the struggle with all one's might and at the same time bow in awe before the unspeakable beauty and pain and all that is inexplicable."Thomas Cahill
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I read the first of her trilogy about taking care of her elderly mother - have another one waiting in my bedside pile. Good stuff.
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