The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have tied logic in knots to advance a doctrine addressing this very same point. What is the Virgin Birth, after all, but the fumbling of minds striving to deal with the indelicate realities of the body? We Jews are merely more forthright about such matters.
Geraldine BrooksSo, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.
Geraldine BrooksMuch later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.
Geraldine BrooksI remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.
Geraldine BrooksIf you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.
Geraldine BrooksIt was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.
Geraldine BrooksThis is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.
Geraldine BrooksHow little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.
Geraldine BrooksHe saw his daughter as a kind-hearted, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing 'meek' with 'weak.
Geraldine BrooksBut some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.
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