Love Letters Quotes

“Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don’t forget that he never promised he’d say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . .

That he cares . . . That is all. Nothing else.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Love Letters

“Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place. Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through stars.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Love Letters

“No. You can’t go back to Patrick. It’s possible that you can go forward to him, but only you can know that. If you tried to go back then you’d only have to leave all over again. Nothing can ever be repeated. Ever.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Love Letters

“Why does the joy of love contain so much sadness? We’re afraid of the sadness because it grows and spreads and becomes too terrible to be borne. And because it leads to tenderness. Tenderness. The moment of tenderness, the undoing, unbearable moment of tenderness.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Love Letters