it’s hard to find time to think about Kansas.
– Marilynne Robinson
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- Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson
- Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas – Langston Hughes
- Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread? – Calvin Trillin
- It’s better to have nothing,’ the children were saying. – Marilynne Robinson
- My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine. – Marilynne Robinson
- When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
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- How I wish you could have known me in my strength. – Marilynne Robinson
- It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. – Marilynne Robinson
- That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth. – Marilynne Robinson
- I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep. – Marilynne Robinson
- There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. – Marilynne Robinson
- remembering and forgiving can be contrary things – Marilynne Robinson
- She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. – Marilynne Robinson
- The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global – Marilynne Robinson
- I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
- He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was. – Marilynne Robinson
- There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. – Marilynne Robinson
- Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. – Marilynne Robinson
- Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice. – Marilynne Robinson
- It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. – Marilynne Robinson
- . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson
- The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. – Marilynne Robinson
- You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. – Marilynne Robinson
- …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson
- Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. – Marilynne Robinson
- I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson
- The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. – Marilynne Robinson
- I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. – Marilynne Robinson
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work. – Amelia Boynton Robinson
- Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws. – Holly Robinson
- love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss. – Sanober Khan
- You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I’m fry bread, you bitch, and I’m proud of it. – Eden Robinson
- Life is the game that must be played – Edwin Arlington Robinson
- True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles. – James Morris Robinson
- Bravery shared doesn’t act like bravado among her own. – Linda Robinson
- BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW. – Bruce Robinson
- He walked towards me. My heart was pounding like a nineties warehouse rave. – Lucy Robinson
- You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I’ve ever known – but there isn’t a centimetre of you that I don’t think is perfect. – Lucy Robinson