"I applied for funding to embark on an……" — 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 archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories."
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18 Quotes by Hannah Kent
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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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...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like…
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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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