247 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

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.

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

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

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.