#john ames

[moonlightpersephone]

“The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.”

“... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.”

“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.”

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

some quotes; Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

[parlar-per-parlar]

The sun had come up brilliantly after a heavy rain, and the trees were glistening and very wet. On some impulse, plain exuberance, I suppose, the fellow jumped up and caught hold of a branch, and a storm of luminous water came pouring down on the two of them, and they laughed and took off running, the girl sweeping water off her hair and her dress as if she were a little bit disgusted, but she wasn’t. It was a beautiful thing to see, like something from a myth. I don’t know why I thought of that now, except perhaps because it is easy to believe in such moments that water was made primarily for blessing, and only secondarily for growing vegetables or doing the wash. I wish I had paid more attention to it. My list of regrets may seem unusual, but who can know that they are, really. This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)

[seattlemysterybooks]

philsp.com

October 29, 1927 issue

Charles Somerville: “Bad Bill” Wright   

R. W. Alexander, “The Trail of the Soapstone Buddhas” (Episode 4), Canton     

Léon Groc, “The Bus That Vanished” (Part 2 of 4) 

H. W. Corley, “The Marriage Ad Girl"  

Victor Maxwell, “Straight Police Work” (Sergeant Riordan)

J. Jefferson Farjeon , “The Cleverness of Crockett” (Detective X. Crook)   

Don H. Thompson, “A Business Proposition”

John Stephen Strange, “The Fortescue Affair” (Part 5 of 5)  

Kenneth F. Richards: A Human Tiger   

John Ames, “The Sky Pirate” (James Reading)

Seattle Mystery Bookshop    

[juderagnarsson]

'I am tired,' he said. I could just feel the loneliness in him. Here I was supposed to be a second father to him. I wanted to say something to him to that effect, but it seemed complicated, and I was too tired to think through its possible implications. It might sound as if I were trying to establish some sort of equivalency between his failings and mine, when in fact I would have meant he was a better man than I ever thought he could be.

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

[merrychimera]

I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep.

Marilynne Robinson -Gilead -John Ames

[merrychimera]

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.

Marilyn Robinson;         Gilead - John Ames

[merrychimera]

I still wake up at night thinking, ‘That’s what I should have said. That’s what he meant!’ remembering conversations I had with people years ago, some of them long gone from this world, past any thought of my putting things to right with them. And then I do wonder where my attention was.

 Marilynne Robinson;        Gilead        - John Ames

[merrychimera]

I saw a bubble float past my window, fat and wobbly and ripening toward that dragonfly blue they turn just before they burst.

Marilynne Robinson;        Gilead         - John Ames