Geraldine Brooks Quotes

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

He said that the music—its order and precision—helped him find the patterns in things—the way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

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

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

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

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

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

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

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

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.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.