I preferred to read than talk with the others.

- Hannah Kent

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to…

- Hannah Kent

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

- Hannah Kent

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrify…

- Hannah Kent

How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was l…

- Hannah Kent

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

- Hannah Kent

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

- Hannah Kent

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

- Hannah Kent

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

- Hannah Kent