Marilynne Robinson Lila Quotes

#1. If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#2. Lila never knew people could be so mean. She was mean, too, because the sadness in that house was like a dream that made everything strange and wrong.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. Lila had no particular notion of what the word 'married' meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.

Herman Melville

#6. I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.

Park Chan-wook

#7. Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Pat Carroll

#8. If someone gives you tough situation, it's better to make a distance.

Avinash Advani