I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.
Geraldine BrooksThere 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 BrooksMy sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
Geraldine BrooksIf a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
Geraldine Brooks