01c. 1943 ADGlory 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1943 ADSo much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensational.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
03c. 1943 ADEven as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
04c. 1943 ADAt the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even address reality. It is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe. And the second is that it inspires in its believers the notion that the fault here lies with miscreant fact, which should therefore be conformed to the requirements of theory by all means necessary.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
05c. 1943 ADIn that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
06c. 1943 ADIf you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
07c. 1943 ADFamilies will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floods and fires and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
08c. 1943 ADShe knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and be amazed, and still not really hear them because they know they were not the ones the words were spoken to.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
09c. 1943 ADOver 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1943 ADA lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
11c. 1943 ADI'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
12c. 1943 ADI think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.Marilynne Robinson / quote ↗
