Famous Geraldine Brooks Quotes

  • David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. – Geraldine Brooks

    David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.– Geraldine Brooks

  • I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks

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

  • It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. – Geraldine Brooks

    It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.– Geraldine Brooks

  • You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks

    You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat.– Geraldine Brooks

  • the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks

    the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.– Geraldine Brooks

  • He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks

    He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?– Geraldine Brooks

  • It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks

    It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.– Geraldine Brooks

  • Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks

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

  • I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child. – Geraldine Brooks

    I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.– Geraldine Brooks

  • I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. – Geraldine Brooks

    I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.– Geraldine Brooks