Marilynne Robinson

Quotes

• “Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.”

• “Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable – which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.”

• “Experience had taught them that truth had sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness.”

• “Once you ask if there is meaning, the only answer is yes. You can't get away from it.”

• “He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly did not want to have.”