The Small Rain Quotes

“It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Small Rain

“Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Small Rain

“It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them—and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on—this desperate need—and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Small Rain

“but music, which is inextricably intertwined with time, is also paradoxically a release from time,”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Small Rain