67 Quotes by Hannah Kent

Blíndur er bóklaus ma∂ur. Blind is a man without a book.

Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

Sometimes, people never stood a chance in the beginning. Or they might have made a mistake. When people start saying things like she must be a bad mother because of that mistake." .... "It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone’s bones.

It was not hard to believe a beautiful woman capable of murder, Margret thought.As it says in the sagas, Opt er flago i fogru skinni. A witch often has fair skin.

Man has created God out of fear of dying.

Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in naming things, you could prevent them from happening.

I prefer a story to a prayer.

Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.