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“A letter makes ordinary things seem important.”

Quote by Marilynne Robinson

Book:Lila: A Novel

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In this novel, the reader is taken on a journey with Lila as she navigates the complexities of her own life and the world around her, ultimately revealing a profound transformation. more

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist known for her profound religious and moral themes. Her works often explore personal faith, social justice, and human relationships, earning her widespread acclaim. Born on November 26, 1943, Robinson's novels 'Gilead' and 'Housekeeping' have received extensive praise. more

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“And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.”

Ifs Life Wells Eye Given Taste Creatures Stones Stuck Mud Stalking Whim Living Creatures

Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”

Humans Black White Human Nature Black And White Grey

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.”

Song Numbers Sorrow Thousand Infinite Recalls

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“pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.”

May Dark Roots Charity Pity Touched

Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

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“I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.”

Trying Wonderful Conviction My Thoughts Sifting

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

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

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Book:Lila: A Novel

Source: Lila: A Novel

“This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.”

Light Joy Loss Sorrow Shadow Casting Compensation Joys And Sorrows

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.”

Men World Should Wells Said Understanding This World Eternity Old Man

Book:Lila: A Novel

Source: Lila: A Novel

“People can bear anything.”

Book:The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal

Source: The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal