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“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

“Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Lila