Marilynne Robinson Quotes

If Heaven Was To Be This World Purged Of Disaster And Nuisance, If Immortality Was To Be This Life Held In Poise And Arrest, And If This World Purged And This Life Unconsuming Could Be Thought Of As World And Life Restored To Their Proper Natures, It Is No Wonder That Five Serene, Eventless Years Lulled My Grandmother Into Forgetting What She Should Never Have Forgotten.

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