Quotes from Geraldine Brooks

if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam." It

The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

assailant to freeze, the suspect appeared to raise a weapon, at which time the officer responded with lethal fire.

He asked Clancy to stay, and as he crossed the street,

The detective cleared his throat. It sounded like he was reading. "At seven twenty p.m., an officer in Rock Creek Park interrupted an assault and robbery in progress. The victim was a female

Caucasian. When the officer asked the suspected

He slowed his runner's stride so as not to overtake her.

I find it suits me, this job of chaplain. I am, indeed, a "chapel man," who carries within himself all that's needed for worship. At last, it is possible to have a part in faith without carved pulpit or Gothic arch, without lace altar cloth and without robes, save my suit of unornamented black.

Just as a lump of coal, under pressure, could become a diamond bit, Theo had learned to turn his anger into something he could use.

Britain's Royal Veterinary College, where Catherine worked, had come into being in 1792 to study the skeleton of a famous English racehorse named Eclipse, an undefeated champion popular for his thrilling speed. The file contained lively newspaper reports on Eclipse's races

the horse looks, but how beautiful it feels to him.

Spring here is not spring as we know it: the cool, wet promise of snowmelt and frozen ground yielding into mud. Here, a sudden heat falls out of the sky one day, and one breathes and moves as if deposited inside a kettle of soup.

In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social disorder in the Catholic

Because of her, I had known the warmth of a motherly concern—the concern that my own mother had not lived to show me. Because of her, I had had a teacher and was not ignorant and unlettered still.

Jarret interrupted. "Colonel Bruce, you must be aware of the rising difficulty for men like me in the thoroughbred world. You must know that for some who supported the Southern cause, the war is not over. They deplore their reduced circumstances and do not care to see someone like me

You were like a flame blown by the wind until it is almost extinguished. All I had to do was put the glass around you. And now, how you shine!

I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. - Bethia Mayfield

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.

who would fight the wind if it came from the west when he wanted it from the east.

We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It's another war, I think.

We are taught early here to see Nature as a foe to be subdued. But I came, by stages, to worship it. You could say that for me, this island and her bounties became the first of my false gods, the original sin that begot so much idolatry.

All women's lives are like that, I told myself, as I climbed the stair that led to the better-appointed rooms of the king's house. Which of them ever is mistress of her own destiny? Highborn or peasant, it makes no difference. At least David hadn't had her flogged or killed, as another king might have done. But now that I had heard the tale of her life in her own words, my heart ached for her.