"...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of……" — Hannah Kent
"...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush."
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18 Quotes by Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent has 18 quotes on this site.
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It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was…
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To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.
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As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in…
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Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There…
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The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
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I preferred to read than talk with the others.
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I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!
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A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack…
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I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for…
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Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by…
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More Berries Quotes
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one of 132 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a…
— Sophia Bush
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One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very…
— Eric Clapton
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing…
— Eric Clapton
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty…
— Ian Anderson
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often…
— Unknown Author
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with…
— Pope Leo XII
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
— Alexander Pope
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble…
— James Joyce
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The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
— Hartley Coleridge
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation,…
— Satish Kumar
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Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original…
— Dave Barry
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