“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”

—  Marilynne Robinson, book Lila

Source: Lila

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American novelist and essayist 1943

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