Monday, January 05
“ In the opening scene Cordelia could so easily have prevented the whole tragic sequence of events simply by telling her father that she loved him, which was both what he wanted to hear and also the truth, but instead—out of a stubbornness not unlike his own, perhaps, or out of the impulse to expose her sisters for the hypocrites she knew them to be—she chose instead to “Love, and be silent,” revealing the truth to him only when it was too late.
• Frederick Buechner, writing of Shakespeare’s King Lear in Speak What We Feel: Reflections on Literature and Faith
