"She was like a butterfly, full of color……" — Geraldine Brooks
"She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them."
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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site.
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,…
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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More Butterfly Quotes
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'.…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help…
— Joyce Brothers
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
— Mariah Carey
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,'…
— Adam Carolla
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
— Muhammad Ali
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I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning.…
— Jennifer Aniston
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round:…
— Anton Chekhov
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