Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Nature, Two, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

• That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Spring, Angel

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.119, Macmillan

• A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Clouds, Air

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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