“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I’ve watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“...the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward’s talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I did note this, and set it down as yet one more of life’s injustices: that the man who has been wealthy… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To find out,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the beast will… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“No, no,” he said. “She can’t raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices. If” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
