Marilynne Robinson Quotes about Memories

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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill

There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long.

Marilynne Robinson

Dream, Memories, Home

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Marilynne Robinson

Memories, Has Beens, Seems

Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

Marilynne Robinson

Memories, Loss

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

Marilynne Robinson

Beautiful, Memories, Hate