Quotes by : Geraldine Brooks

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand....

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until....

When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces.....

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

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,....

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to....