Quotes by : Marilynne Robinson

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so....

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

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.

She kept saying, "My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back." But that's the kind....

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I....

Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the....

There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived.....

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question....

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when....

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit....