Poetic Obituaries: "Why does anybody tell a story?"

she [Madeleine L'Engle] once asked, even though she knew the answer.

"It does indeed have something to do with faith," she said, "faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically."

from The New York Times: Madeleine L'Engle, Writer of Children's Classics, Is Dead at 88

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