--- title: "1 Hands Raw Quotes By Hannah Kent" description: "1 Hands Raw quotes by Hannah Kent. Plus more from Hannah Kent and more Hands Raw sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd9/hannah-kent-4646_choked_i-will-hold-what-i-am-inside-and-keep-my_689152.png" --- > [“I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and felt. The poems composed as I washed and scythed and cooked until my hands were raw. The sagas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/i-will-hold-what-i-am-inside-and-keep-my-hands-tight-around-all-the/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd9/hannah-kent-4646_choked_i-will-hold-what-i-am-inside-and-keep-my_689152.png) ## More by Hannah Kent > [“I prefer a story to a prayer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/i-prefer-a-story-to-a-prayer/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/of-all-the-names-one-is-a-mistake-one-is-a-nightmare-the-stair-you/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/i-applied-for-funding-to-embark-on-an-overseas-field-trip-in-iceland/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a nest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/those-who-are-not-being-dragged-to-their-deaths-cannot-understand-how/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“I might have starved to death. I would be mud-slick, stuffed to the guts with cold and hopelessness, and my body might know it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/i-might-have-starved-to-death-i-would-be-mud-slick-stuffed-to-the/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“Illugastadir, the farm by the sea, where the soft air rings with the clang of the smithy, and gulls caw, and seals roll over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/illugastadir-the-farm-by-the-sea-where-the-soft-air-rings-with-the/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.’ ‘Peg”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/the-thunder-kills-the-unhatched-birds-in-their-eggs-peg/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“cradling dead bodies in its cage of burnt beams.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/cradling-dead-bodies-in-its-cage-of-burnt-beams/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/the-treachery-of-a-friend-is-worse-than-that-of-a-foe/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/i-really-hate-the-term-historical-novel-it-reminds-me-of-bodice/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“Some folks are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with skin a little a thinner, eyes a little keener…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/some-folks-are-born-different-nance-they-are-born-on-the-outside-of/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/it-was-not-hard-to-believe-a-beautiful-woman-capable-of-murder/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/my-dad-would-tell-me-bedtime-stories-and-he-used-to-always-leave-them/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/so-lonely-i-make-friends-with-the-ravens-that-prey-on-lambs/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) > [You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/you-know-you-re-going-to-have-a-good-day-when-your-morning-begins/) [Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hands-raw/hannah-kent/#itemlist", "name": "1 Hands Raw Quotes By Hannah Kent", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and felt. 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