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Quotes by Geraldine Brooks
- The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
- The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
- 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.
- There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
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