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. - Marilynne Robinson

I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires. It would have been much harder for them to roost in the sunlight, which is a thing they clearly enjoy doing.

As a matter of courtesy they treated one another's deceptions like truth, which was a different thing from deceiving or being deceived. In fact, it was a great part of the fabric of mutual understanding that made their family close.

Her family was slower to forgive a failure of discretion than they were to forgive most things actually prohibited in Scripture.