Status Updates From Lila (Gilead, #3)

A father holds out his hand to a child who is learning to walk, and he comforts the child with words and draws it towards him, but he lets the child feel the risk it is taking, and let it choose its own courage and the certainty of love and comfort when he reaches his father over

A father holds out his hands to a child who is learning to walk, and he comforts the child with his words and draws it toward him, but he lets the child feel the risk it is taking, and lets it choose its own courage and the certainty of love and comfort when he reaches his father over

I feel so elated because i finally have a physical book of this to read. I'm currently burrying myself in Marilynne Robinson's prose and I am loving every second of it. Lila is now finally opening my eyes to the other point of view of Gilead.

i’m already devastated

“She’d never been at home all the years of her life, and she wouldn’t know how to begin”

"And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures..." "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..." Gilead book #3. 💛

This book is like a less depressing housekeeping, which is hilarious because its still so sad lol

I can't stand this book. 😒

How I loath children suffering 🫩🤕👿

““What do you ever tell people in a sermon, except that the things that happen mean something. Some man died somewhere a long time ago and that means something. People eat a bit of bread and that means something”