The Other Side of the Sun Quotes

“All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide."
'What's that?" he asked sharply.
"something of Mado's. Marguerite Dominique de la Valeur Renier." She drew out the syllables lovingly. "My husband's grandmother. Your great-great-grandmother. Love's terrible other side. The other side of the sun. You can't go around it, Theron. You have to go through it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men remain silent and do nothing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“--That's not a swear word. I made it up myself.--
--You made it up to use as a swear word.--”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“That's not a swear word. I made it up myself.'
'You made it up to use as a swear word.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“Theron thought he could solve problems by brushing them aside as though they didn’t exist. But they do exist, they still exist, and unless responsible people do something about them, our land is in for fresh disaster, brother against brother, black against white.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“(… As Terry had held me in his arms our last night together in Oxford. ‘It is all right.’ The sea brought me the echo of his loving, persuasive voice, ‘Because I am you, and you are me, and we are one.’ My tears had been salt, salt as the water which slapped now gently against my face. ‘Then how can we be torn apart?’ ‘Dear love, we aren’t,’ he had said. ‘I take you with me, and me with you. Mica, mica, parva Stella, you knew when you married me that …”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun