"Gilead" Quotes
A dying father reflects on his life and imparts his wisdom to his young son in a small town in Iowa.
fiction | 256 pages | Published in 2020
Quotes
It is the oddest thing about the world: how it manages to go on, in spite of the way it keeps diminishing.
But the love that comes with reservation is not love.
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.
It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
What I mean to say is, people mostly want to see the good in others.
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.
This light could not have been better chosen: it gave the impression of wait and watchfulness, of work begun and interrupted, of someone come by chance and lingering, of curiosity but not defiance.
It seems to me increasingly that love must be a manifest to the world in the life of the community.
Fear is a dangerous temptation.
I could scarcely credit that the world kept on going, that there were children in the world, that there were flowers and birds and blue sky. That all remained as before.
