It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.
I preferred to read than talk with the others. - Hannah Kent
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
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…
To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things. - Hannah Kent
To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.
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
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…
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
If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now
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
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…
No doves come from ravens’ eggs - Hannah Kent
No doves come from ravens’ eggs
I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here! - Hannah Kent
I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland. - Hannah Kent
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
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