Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Quotes

• “There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a g...”
• “I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books...”
• “You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, ...”
• “It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last h...”
• “I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about u...”
• “A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual inc...”
• “Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”