Marilynne Robinson Quote

She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.

Housekeeping: A Novel (ed. Macmillan, 2004) - ISBN: 9781429954464