Geraldine Brooks Quotes
Geraldine Brooks Quotes
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
1803 A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
1273 Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
1610 Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.
2979 Who is the brave man-he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
3410 To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
2582 It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
3441 From "Caleb's Crossing"-This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.
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