Martha Wright

“These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Somewhere, and I can’t find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life