Marilynne Robinson said this quote

“ You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years. ”

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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

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I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

~ Marilynne Robinson