67 Quotes by Hannah Kent

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    Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tóti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tóti: "Yes. Tóti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and the rest are going against God. They're hypocrites. They say they are carrying out God's law but they are only doing the will of men.

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    Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.

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    Ce n'était pas moi qu'ils regardaient. Pas moi qu'ils voyaient. J'étais deux hommes morts. J'étais une ferme en feu. J'étais le couteau. J'étais le sang.

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    If I had known that the dress I laboured over would be my only warmth in a room that reeked of sour skin. If I had known that the dress would one day be put on in the night, in a hurry, to be soaked with sweat as I ran through the witching hours to Stapar, screaming fit to raise the dead.

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    Immagino che siamo tutti come fiammelle di candele accese, scintillanti, tremule nell'oscurità e poi immagino l'ululato del vento, e nel silenzio della stanza sent dei passi che vengono a soffiare su di me e a ridurre la mia vita a un refolo di fumo grigio. Mi dissolverò nell'aria e nella notte. Ci spegneranno tutti, uno a uno, finchè non rimarrà altro che la loro luce, e solo quella vedranno. Dove sarò allora?

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    How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it.

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