Gilead Quotes

I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge," because many people are tender of their resentments, as of the things nearest their hearts. (1.8.7)

I don't know why I should expect to have any idea of heaven. I could never have imagined this world if I hadn't spent almost eight decades walking around in it. (1.5.26)

I want your dear perishable self to live long and to love this poor perishable world, which I somehow cannot imagine not missing bitterly, even while I do long to see what it will mean to have wife...

Children seem to think every pleasant thing has to be a surprise. (1.8.5)

Most of them took me to mean they were spared the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing. It was just like a biblical plague, just exactl...

One great benefit of a religious vocation is that it helps you concentrate. It gives you a good basic sense of what is being asked of you and what you might as well ignore. (1.1.16)

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you could ever imagine. (1.1.12)

There are many ways to live a good life. (1.1.1)

And you put your hand in my hand and you said, You aren't very old, as if that settled it. (1.1.1)

I don't know how many times people have asked me what death is like, sometimes when they were only an hour or two from finding out for themselves. (1.1.3)