Marilynne Robinson Quote

For families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs out of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.


Housekeeping (1980)


For families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs...

For families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs...

For families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs...

For families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs...