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

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

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  3. How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
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  5. 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
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  7. It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. – Geraldine Brooks
  8. It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom. – Olan Rogers
  9. Whose are all these ghosts?- she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. -œOh,- said Geraldine, -œI think they might be mine…? – Diane Hall
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  11. A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  12. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. – Geraldine Brooks
  16. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. – Geraldine Brooks
  17. Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  18. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. – Geraldine Brooks
  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. To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. – Geraldine Brooks
  21. Curiosity -“ if not desire, if not plain kindness -“ might have led him to greater zeal. – 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
  25. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man’s own gift of speed against him. – Geraldine Brooks
  26. We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. – Geraldine Brooks
  27. I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. – Geraldine Brooks
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  29. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
  30. It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks
  31. the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks
  32. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks
  33. You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks
  34. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. – Geraldine Brooks
  35. When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. – William Saroyan
  36. God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move. – Billy Graham
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  38. The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human. – Abhijit Naskar
  39. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. – Thomas Szasz
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