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It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

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

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
  4. I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks
  5. Whose are all these ghosts?- she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. -œOh,- said Geraldine, -œI think they might be mine…? – Diane Hall
  6. A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  7. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. – Geraldine Brooks
  11. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. – Geraldine Brooks
  12. Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  13. 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
  14. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. – Geraldine Brooks
  15. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. – 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. It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks
  27. the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks
  28. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks
  29. You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks
  30. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. – Geraldine Brooks
  31. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  32. May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is … Chocolate. – Geraldine Solon
  33. Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension. – Sloane Crosley
  34. Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story. – Palle Oswald
  35. May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  36. I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it’s all the same genre. – Don Roff
  37. May your heart open.May joy emerge.May love flow through you.May you heal and help others. – Charlene Costanzo
  38. Imagination is probably the most remarkable thing that exist in the universe. – RADelmonico
  39. Like Cheyenne Mountain, today’s fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade. – Eric Schlosser
  40. We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism. – Sigmund Freud

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