Madeleine L'Engle Quote

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?'


A Circle of Quiet (1972)


The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask...

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask...

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask...

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask...