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Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
– Geraldine Brooks

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  3. Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said. – Jeannine Atkins
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  9. A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  10. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
  11. 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
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  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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