Geraldine Brooks: "...the force within a woman..."

"[Mother Courage] - the force within a woman that will drive her to do that for her babe that she would not dream was within her power to do..."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "With rest you might..."

"With rest you might find the world a small bit brighter."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "Let us choose not..."

"Let us choose not the dull luster of our base state when God would have us shine!"

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "We all begin as..."

"We all begin as naked children, playing in the mud."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "... it takes a kind..."

"... it takes a kind of courage to care so little for what people whisper..."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "Death is always hard..."

"Death is always hard, wheresoever it finds a man. And untimely death harder than most."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "God warns us not..."

"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."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks: "Mornings are generally much..."

"Mornings are generally much kinder to me than evenings, full as they are of... the ordinary promise that comes with any sunrise."

—Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders