"It was only later that I suffocated under……" — Hannah Kent
"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."
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18 Quotes by Hannah Kent
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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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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by…
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