Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can. — Geraldine Brooks Alive Copy Share Image
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Factual Copy Share Image
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home—to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“He had scooped up another handful of sand and stared at each grain as it fell through his fingers. 'You are like… — Geraldine Brooks Colonisation Copy Share Image
All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather… — Geraldine Brooks Anger Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy for people like me”—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—“to be totally off base about this country… — Geraldine Brooks Patriotism Copy Share Image
“Swirling a glass of ice splashed with Scotch, the host seemed oblivious to the contradiction between what he’d just finished saying and… — Geraldine Brooks Failed marriage Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Arabic Copy Share Image
“You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall… — Geraldine Brooks Thoughtful Copy Share Image
“fundamentalists asked that a male answer questions directed to her, on the grounds that a woman’s voice is too alluring to be… — Geraldine Brooks Business Copy Share Image
“You can ask for things, but you can’t just reach out and take things as if it’s your right.” A” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you,… — Geraldine Brooks Behind you Copy Share Image
“Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace's shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf… — Geraldine Brooks Slavery Copy Share Image
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks Afternoon 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 Able Copy Share Image
“She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke… — Geraldine Brooks Insult Copy Share Image
“We’re seeing a rise in the school dropout rate for girls because their families’ incomes are falling and girls’ schooling is the… — Geraldine Brooks Education Copy Share Image
“It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn’t wish to emulate him in something so… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.” — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake… — Geraldine Brooks Beautiful Copy Share Image
