Author: Geraldine Brooks

Quotes

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

- Geraldine Brooks

One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.

One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.

- Geraldine Brooks

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 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.

- Geraldine Brooks

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

- Geraldine Brooks

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

- Geraldine Brooks

The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.

The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.

- Geraldine Brooks

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