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

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

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  3. A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  4. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
  5. Who is the brave man–he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. – Geraldine Brooks
  6. I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk. – Geraldine Brooks
  7. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. – Geraldine Brooks
  8. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. – Geraldine Brooks
  9. Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  10. 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
  11. 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. – Geraldine Brooks
  12. This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. – Geraldine Brooks
  13. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. – Geraldine Brooks
  14. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. – Geraldine Brooks
  15. The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
  16. To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. – Geraldine Brooks
  17. Curiosity -“ if not desire, if not plain kindness -“ might have led him to greater zeal. – Geraldine Brooks
  18. the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. – Geraldine Brooks
  19. Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. – Geraldine Brooks
  20. 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
  21. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man’s own gift of speed against him. – Geraldine Brooks
  22. We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. – Geraldine Brooks
  23. I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. – Geraldine Brooks
  24. 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
  25. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
  26. the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks
  27. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks
  28. You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks
  29. It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. – Geraldine Brooks
  30. I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks
  31. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. – Geraldine Brooks
  32. Come out, come out, wherever you are… come out, come out, or you’ll end up in the tar… – Beatrice Rose Roberts
  33. From rocks come gold.From coal comes diamonds.From oysters come pearls.From caterpillars come ????erflies.From adversity come the great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  34. We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. – DaShanne Stokes
  35. The only way to prevent your problem from jubilating over you is to confront them head to head with the singular hope that they will be defeated! – Israelmore Ayivor
  36. Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness. – Sunday Adelaja
  37. It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others. – Raymond E Feist
  38. People often call fighting racism being ‘PC’ when they don’t want to confront their own prejudice – DaShanne Stokes
  39. Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. – Hannah Arendt
  40. I still don’t have all the answers, but I’m no longer afraid to confront the questions. – Pittacus Lore

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