Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.
Marilynne RobinsonThere are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
Marilynne RobinsonIt all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
Marilynne RobinsonThe 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.
Marilynne Robinson