Quote by Geraldine Brooks
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer

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. – Geraldine Brooks

Other quotes by Geraldine Brooks

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. – Geraldine Brooks

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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. – Geraldine Brooks

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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. – Geraldine Brooks

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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. – Bill Cosby

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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I cant control. – Lynda Barry

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Theres no love more intense than the love we have for our kids – and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface. – Arianna Huffington

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