"I have made a mistake. They condemn me……" — Hannah Kent
"I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for it. A red-headed boy, who gobbles his buttered bread and toddles to his horse with the seat of his pants wet, this is the young man they hope will get me on my knees, full of prayer. This is the young man I hope will be able to help me, although with what and how I cannot think."
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Hannah Kent
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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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...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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