“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.” — Geraldine Brooks Jealousy Copy Share Image
“The practice of mutilating women’s genitals in Eritrea predated the arrival of both religions, and for hundreds of years neither faith had… — Geraldine Brooks Religion Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Best Copy Share Image
“How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that… — Geraldine Brooks Anna Copy Share Image
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers’ licenses they’d acquired overseas. Many” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.” — Geraldine Brooks Bibliophilia Copy Share Image
“Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for… — Geraldine Brooks Goals Copy Share Image
“Rehab had been cursed indeed. There was no way Mohamed could have raised the money to buy his secret stash of gold… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.” — Geraldine Brooks Divorce Copy Share Image
“The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or… — Geraldine Brooks Fear Copy Share Image
“When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the… — Geraldine Brooks Gardening Copy Share Image
“They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks Description Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Caverns Copy Share Image
“Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss--that means to send someone up, make fun of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“asked how, if he never had spoken before to women outside his family, he was able to serve as spiritual counselor to… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I have now traveled so far south that I find myself come to a place where our common expression “white as snow”… — Geraldine Brooks Nature Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Fiction Copy Share Image
“But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see… — Geraldine Brooks Art Copy Share Image
“girls were subjected to both clito-ridectomy—the excision of the clitoris—and infibulation—the cutting away of the labia and the sealing of the wound… — Geraldine Brooks Scar tissue Copy Share Image
