Marilynne Robinson Lila Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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