Geraldine Brooks Quotes About Home
-
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages.
→ -
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.
→ -
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.
→
Related Authors
-
Tracy Chevalier Novelist -
Sara Gruen Author -
Edward P. Jones Novelist -
Elizabeth Strout Author -
Amos Bronson Alcott Writer -
Louisa May Alcott Novelist -
Hannah Kent Writer -
Peter Carey Novelist -
Tony Horwitz Journalist -
Kate Grenville Author -
Mary Ann Shaffer Writer -
Marilynne Robinson Novelist -
Richard Russo Novelist -
Michael Chabon Author -
Ann Patchett Author -
Helen Garner Novelist -
Barbara Kingsolver Novelist -
Kate Morton Author -
Lisa See Writer -
Jenna Blum Writer