Lila Marilynne Robinson Quotes & Sayings

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe. — G.K. Chesterton

What use was there in calling a day by a certain name, or thinking of it as anything but weather? They knew what time of the year it was when the timothy bloomed, when the birds were fledging. They knew it was morning when the sun came up. What more was there to know? If Doll was going to be lost forever, Lila wanted to be right there with her, holding to the skirt of her dress. She had — Marilynne Robinson

Beauty may be the object of liking
great qualities of admiration
good ones of esteem
but love only is the object of love. — Henry Fielding

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements. — Richard Lamm

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation. — Robert Mayer

Lila had no particular notion of what the word 'married' meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire. — Marilynne Robinson

None of us can chose where we will love. — Susan Kay

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies. — John Clayton

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

Lila never knew people could be so mean. She was mean, too, because the sadness in that house was like a dream that made everything strange and wrong. — Marilynne Robinson

Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really. — Marilynne Robinson

For unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly. — Francoise Sagan