“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above all, mind what you say. ‘Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is a fire’ – that’s the truth.”
More from Marilynne Robinson
“You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.”
“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long,…”
“My mind, with all its deficiencies, has certainly kept me interested.”