Author: Marilynne Robinson

Cited by

• Emma Chapman (1)
  • IN: How to be a Good Wife (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And below is always the accumulated past, which vanishes but does not vanish, which perishes and remains.
    FROM: Housekeeping, (1980), Novel, US
• Gina Frangello (1)
  • IN: A Life in Men (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.
    FROM: Gilead, (2004), Novel, US
• Carrie Laken (1)
  • IN: Dream House (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Imagine that Noah knocked his house apart and used the planks to build an ark, while his neighbors looked on, full of doubt. A house, he must have told them, should be daubed with pitch and built to float cloud high, if need be. A lettuce patch was of no use at all, and a good foundation was worse than useless. A house should have a compass and a keel. The neighbors would have put their hands in their pockets and chewed their lips and strolled home to houses they now found wanting in ways they could not understand.
    FROM: Housekeeping, (1980), Novel, US
• Tatjana Soli (1)
  • IN: The Forgetting Tree (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The odd capacity for destination, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and the thought of what is wanting and what is alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at case, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.
    FROM: Home, (2008), Novel, US