"Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the……" — Geraldine Brooks

"Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves."

— Geraldine Brooks

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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend…
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,…
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that…
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and…
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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