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

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man’s own gift of speed against him.
– Geraldine Brooks

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  10. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
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  13. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. – Geraldine Brooks
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  15. When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared. – Geraldine Brooks
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  19. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. – Geraldine Brooks
  20. The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
  21. To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. – Geraldine Brooks
  22. the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. – Geraldine Brooks
  23. Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. – Geraldine Brooks
  24. You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going. – Geraldine Brooks
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  28. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
  29. It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks
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