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“ Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything. ”

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[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 same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.

~ Geraldine Brooks

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

~ Geraldine Brooks

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.

~ Geraldine Brooks