“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 Death Copy Share Image
“I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just… — Geraldine Brooks Happy ending Copy Share Image
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the… — Geraldine Brooks Bread Copy Share Image
“Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women’s hands benefits families much more than money flowing… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she… — Geraldine Brooks Butterfly Copy Share Image
“It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not… — Geraldine Brooks Dark Copy Share Image
“Politics needs a certain mental ability,” explained Ahmad Saati, the university’s spokesman. “Very few women have this kind of mind.” I” — Geraldine Brooks Politics 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 Justice Copy Share Image
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport… — Geraldine Brooks Country Copy Share Image
“Until Islam’s articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave… — Geraldine Brooks Failure Copy Share Image
“When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every… — Geraldine Brooks Fire Copy Share Image
“To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks Animal Copy Share Image
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Cynical Copy Share Image
“The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward:… — Geraldine Brooks Old man 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 Death Copy Share Image
“From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day.” — Geraldine Brooks Every day Copy Share Image
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go… — Geraldine Brooks Actresses Copy Share Image
“The snow light flared on brightness. Blue: intense as a midsummer sky, obtained from grinding precious lapis lazuli carried by camel caravan… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local… — Geraldine Brooks Death Copy Share Image
“I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?” — Geraldine Brooks Reckless abandon Copy Share Image
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't… — Geraldine Brooks Babe Copy Share Image
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. — Geraldine Brooks Attitude Copy Share Image
