Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.
("Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague")
More Quotes from Geraldine Brooks:
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.Geraldine Brooks
I have no big plans. I think I might have to make some, and they might have to involve some champagne.
Geraldine Brooks
My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly. I used to wonder if it was so because the memory of Heaven still lived within them, so that in leaving here they do not fear death as we do, who no longer know with certainty where it is our spirits go. This, I thought, must be the kindness that God does for them and for us, since He gives so many infants such a little while to bide with us.
Geraldine Brooks
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
Geraldine Brooks
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give lease, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
Geraldine Brooks
This isn't a book about war, but about the strength of ideas that drive people to extreme action.
Geraldine Brooks
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: cavern, teeterWhat a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Robin G. Collingwood
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.
Paul Guilfoyle
I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
Yancy Butler