"[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."What do you mean?"Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the s..."
- Geraldine Brooks
"A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand."
"Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves."
"Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination."
"I wonder where he lies. Wedged under a rock, with a thousand small mouths already sucking on his spongy flesh. Or floating still, on and down, on and down, to wider, calmer reaches of the river. I see..."
"You know that your church has always taken a view on these matters very different from ours, from the day that the first printing press was assembled. Your church did not want your holy scriptures in ..."
"The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his..."
"As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land, ..."
"I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk."
"I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions."