Famous Geraldine Brooks Quotes
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
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
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
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
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