247 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

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    ... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.

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    ...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

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    Anys was so skilled with plants and balms that she knew how to extract their fragrant oils, and these she wore on her person so that a light, pleasant scent, like summer fruits and flowers, always preceded her.

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    No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

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    Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

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    And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

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    I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.

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