Gilead Quotes

“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“There will be water if God wills it.”
― Stephen King

“You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“For Gilead and the Calla!" he roared. "Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.”
― Stephen King

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“I had not been exposed to these kinds of situations, so this event was not trivial to me. Instead it was horrifying. It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Tell me the truth, Roland of Gilead - no flattery. For
flattery's kind only a candle's length.'

Little sisters of Eluria.”
― Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing
between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”
― Marylinne Robinson

“My own dark time, as I call it, the time of my loneliness, was most of my life, as I have said, and I can’t make any real account of myself without speaking of it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“it is hard to fit in after being through gilead
but you won't see her sugarcoat the gospel”
― Remy Alberi, The Comprehension Watch