Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home - it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.”
“How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.”
“Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.”
“It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.”
“It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.”
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.”
“Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.”
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.”
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gratitude, youth, pain, freedom-of-a-woman
