Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.


Gilead (ed. Hachette UK, 2009) - ISBN: 9780748113507

Marilynne Robinson Quotes

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest...

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest...

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest...

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest...