Geraldine Brooks Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks Famous Quotes & Sayings
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David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.
But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.
A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.
How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth - the many gods, the animate spirit world - and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.
All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers' licenses they'd acquired overseas. Many
I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.
Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.
And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?
I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
Who is the brave man
he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
In Muslim societies men's bodies just weren't seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women's. Getting
When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.
Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss
that means to send someone up, make fun of them.
that means to send someone up, make fun of them.
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.
under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.
I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.
I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.
No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To
Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and ... truckloads of guts, you know.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.
David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
I've watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life.
He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.
Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.
I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
The surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve.
Bethia as an old woman about to die
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Bethia as an old woman about to die
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The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.