1
I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.Geraldine Brooks
2
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.Geraldine Brooks
3
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.Geraldine Brooks
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I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one–this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.Geraldine Brooks
5
Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.Geraldine Brooks