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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. By Geraldine Brooks

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. By Geraldine Brooks

Perhaps the giver of the name had meant to trick Cheepi, the devil-god, into thinking him unloved and therefore leaving him alone. By Geraldine Brooks

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. By Geraldine Brooks

I've watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life. By Geraldine Brooks

Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? By Geraldine Brooks

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them. By Geraldine Brooks

This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet. By Geraldine Brooks

Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. By Geraldine Brooks

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and ... truckloads of guts, you know. By Geraldine Brooks

The man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor. By Geraldine Brooks

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved. By Geraldine Brooks

The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely. By Geraldine Brooks

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. By Geraldine Brooks

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. By Geraldine Brooks

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. By Geraldine Brooks

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. By Geraldine Brooks

From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day. By Geraldine Brooks

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure. By Geraldine Brooks

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. By Geraldine Brooks

The greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. By Geraldine Brooks

How easy it was to give out morsels of wise counsel, and yet how hard to act on them. By Geraldine Brooks

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. By Geraldine Brooks

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. By Geraldine Brooks

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 diep 257 By Geraldine Brooks

Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some By Geraldine Brooks

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed. By Geraldine Brooks

The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. By Geraldine Brooks

If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it? By Geraldine Brooks

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. By Geraldine Brooks

the truth from his ears, waxed strong. By Geraldine Brooks

In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives' honor. If By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman. By Geraldine Brooks

Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the pissthat means to send someone up, make fun of them. By Geraldine Brooks

I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous. By Geraldine Brooks

I never promised I would write the truth. I By Geraldine Brooks

It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor. By Geraldine Brooks

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can. By Geraldine Brooks

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. By Geraldine Brooks

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. By Geraldine Brooks

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day. By Geraldine Brooks

All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers' licenses they'd acquired overseas. Many By Geraldine Brooks

Who is the brave manhe who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. By Geraldine Brooks

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work. By Geraldine Brooks

I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now. By Geraldine Brooks

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me. By Geraldine Brooks

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. By Geraldine Brooks

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him. By Geraldine Brooks

I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin? By Geraldine Brooks

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared. By Geraldine Brooks

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. By Geraldine Brooks

In Muslim societies men's bodies just weren't seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women's. Getting By Geraldine Brooks

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? By Geraldine Brooks

under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable. By Geraldine Brooks

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. By Geraldine Brooks

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at. By Geraldine Brooks

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. By Geraldine Brooks

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. By Geraldine Brooks

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. By Geraldine Brooks

Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand. By Geraldine Brooks

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. By Geraldine Brooks

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss. By Geraldine Brooks

Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life. By Geraldine Brooks

Used personal and place-names in their transliteration By Geraldine Brooks

It is the habit of our species to despoil all we touch. Yet few see it so. By Geraldine Brooks

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral. By Geraldine Brooks

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse. By Geraldine Brooks

She was loved by a man as a woman is meant to be loved. By Geraldine Brooks

They argued that women of the prophet's era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

One does not have to be a priest to be a man! By Geraldine Brooks

This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky. By Geraldine Brooks

She'd been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since. By Geraldine Brooks

women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To By Geraldine Brooks

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. By Geraldine Brooks

I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause. By Geraldine Brooks

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend. By Geraldine Brooks

Adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it. By Geraldine Brooks

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst. By Geraldine Brooks

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat. By Geraldine Brooks

His spirit is like a guttering candle By Geraldine Brooks

The point is the effort By Geraldine Brooks

This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh. By Geraldine Brooks

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. By Geraldine Brooks

Some half-dozen children running in the fields or about the wetus - fewer By Geraldine Brooks

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. By Geraldine Brooks

I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end. By Geraldine Brooks

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. By Geraldine Brooks

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. By Geraldine Brooks

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. By Geraldine Brooks

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women. By Geraldine Brooks

You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb By Geraldine Brooks

This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself. By Geraldine Brooks

Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And By Geraldine Brooks

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. By Geraldine Brooks