Geraldine Brooks Great Quotations

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

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.