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He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life. — Marilynne Robinson

Grace has a grand laughter in it. — Marilynne Robinson

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work. — Marilynne Robinson

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. — Marilynne Robinson

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar. — Marilynne Robinson

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are. — Marilynne Robinson

Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty. — Marilynne Robinson

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required — Marilynne Robinson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me — Marilynne Robinson

These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace. — Marilynne Robinson

Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things — Marilynne Robinson

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine. — Marilynne Robinson

Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire. — Marilynne Robinson

The world don't want you as long as there is any life in you at all. — Marilynne Robinson

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well. — Marilynne Robinson

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. — Marilynne Robinson

That strong, grassy smell, raw milk in a tin cup. — Marilynne Robinson

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was. — Marilynne Robinson

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself. — Marilynne Robinson

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. — Marilynne Robinson

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. — Marilynne Robinson

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out. — Marilynne Robinson

Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time. — Marilynne Robinson

Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh, — Marilynne Robinson

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. — Marilynne Robinson

It is true for everyone that the experience that society gives to us, or denies us, is profoundly formative. — Marilynne Robinson

The minute that you start thinking about someone in the whole circumstance of his life to the extent that you can, he becomes mysterious, immediately. — Marilynne Robinson

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them. — Marilynne Robinson

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. — Marilynne Robinson

There is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. — Marilynne Robinson

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. — Marilynne Robinson

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself. — Marilynne Robinson

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. — Marilynne Robinson

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx. — Marilynne Robinson

We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams — Marilynne Robinson

It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember. — Marilynne Robinson

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. — Marilynne Robinson

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that. — Marilynne Robinson

But it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined. — Marilynne Robinson

For me, writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone. — Marilynne Robinson

To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error. — Marilynne Robinson

It was an experience I might have missed. Now I only fear I will not have time enough to fully enjoy the thought of it. — Marilynne Robinson

Things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay. — Marilynne Robinson

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. — Marilynne Robinson

So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them. — Marilynne Robinson

Light is constant, we just turn over in it. — Marilynne Robinson

That reservoir of goodness beyond and of another kind that we are able to do for each other in the ordinary cause of things. — Marilynne Robinson

How I wish you could have known me in my strength. — Marilynne Robinson

In St. Louis they had made a sort of game of it, trying to pretty her up. Everything looked wrong. Just pretend you're pretty. — Marilynne Robinson

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature. — Marilynne Robinson

Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery. — Marilynne Robinson

Doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief. — Marilynne Robinson

You must forgive in order to understand. — Marilynne Robinson

Well, he says, basically, that people have to suffer to really recognize grace when it comes. I — Marilynne Robinson

You never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature. — Marilynne Robinson

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk. — Marilynne Robinson

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer. — Marilynne Robinson

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. — Marilynne Robinson

You," she said.
He laughed. "Who else?"
She said, "Nobody else in this world. — Marilynne Robinson

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. — Marilynne Robinson

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson

To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data. — Marilynne Robinson

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is. — Marilynne Robinson

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice. — Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. — Marilynne Robinson

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything. — Marilynne Robinson

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read. — Marilynne Robinson

Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men. — Marilynne Robinson

the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune — Marilynne Robinson

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. — Marilynne Robinson

Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime. — Marilynne Robinson

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her? — Marilynne Robinson

My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places. — Marilynne Robinson

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. — Marilynne Robinson

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. — Marilynne Robinson

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us. — Marilynne Robinson

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. — Marilynne Robinson

Etymologically, a disaster is a bad star. — Marilynne Robinson

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson

The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done. — Marilynne Robinson

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. — Marilynne Robinson

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true. — Marilynne Robinson

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. — Marilynne Robinson

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless. — Marilynne Robinson

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought. — Marilynne Robinson

In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either. — Marilynne Robinson

I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it. — Marilynne Robinson

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable. — Marilynne Robinson

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for. — Marilynne Robinson

Rejoice with those who rejoice. I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep. — Marilynne Robinson

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. — Marilynne Robinson

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. — Marilynne Robinson

You best keep to yourself, except you never can. — Marilynne Robinson

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love. — Phil Klay

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. — Marilynne Robinson

Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise. — Marilynne Robinson