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David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
– Geraldine Brooks

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  2. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. – Geraldine Brooks
  3. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  4. Whose are all these ghosts?- she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. -œOh,- said Geraldine, -œI think they might be mine…? – Diane Hall
  5. God is waiting, heaven is waiting, and the heavenly army is waiting for us to move forward and accomplish the will of God – Sunday Adelaja
  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. 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
  15. 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
  16. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. – Geraldine Brooks
  17. The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
  18. To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. – Geraldine Brooks
  19. Curiosity -“ if not desire, if not plain kindness -“ might have led him to greater zeal. – Geraldine Brooks
  20. the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. – Geraldine Brooks
  21. Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. – Geraldine Brooks
  22. 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
  23. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man’s own gift of speed against him. – Geraldine Brooks
  24. We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. – Geraldine Brooks
  25. I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. – Geraldine Brooks
  26. 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
  27. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
  28. It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks
  29. the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks
  30. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks
  31. You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks
  32. It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. – Geraldine Brooks
  33. I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks
  34. Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. – Sara Sheridan
  35. Many men have children, but not many children have ‘Fathers’. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills – Fela Durotoye
  36. From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that’s the hard and complicated work… – Deyth Banger
  37. All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days… – Brenna Ehrlich
  38. There are good days and hard days for me. Don’t let the hard days win ~Mor ~A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J Maas
  39. King John was not a good man,He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him,For days and days and days. – AA Milne
  40. The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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