{"author":"Geraldine Brooks","author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks","total_quotes":71,"quotes":[{"text":"Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["compassion","ministry","openness","passion"],"id":6951,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["discernment","discipleship","servant-leadership"],"id":7352,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there on a bed of fallen pine needles-even today, the scent of pitch-pine stirs me-with Henry's distant flute for a wedding march and the arching white birch boughs for our basilica. At first, she quivered like an aspen, and I was ashamed at my lack of continence, yet I could not let go of her. I felt like Peleus on the beach, clinging to Thetis, only to find that, suddenly, it was she who held me; that same furnace in her nature that had flared up in anger blazed again, in passion.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["desire","love"],"id":12287,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["leadership","statecraft"],"id":20445,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces. It was of mysteries: the number two, the dual; the house, the house of God on earth. 'They will build me a temple and I will dwell in them.' In them, not in it. He would dwell within her. She would be the house of God. The house of transcendence. Just a single, tiny letter, and in it, such a path to joy.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["god","transcendence","words"],"id":21965,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["love","empathy","violence "],"id":26581,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"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.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["stand up","stand","madness "],"id":32885,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"The heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["discipleship","ministry"],"id":40824,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["authenticity","gossip","leadership","legend","popularity","repetitions"],"id":55796,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"},{"text":"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.","author":"Geraldine Brooks","tags":["humility","optics","servant-leadership","worship"],"id":67966,"author_id":"Geraldine+Brooks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}