Quote by Hannah Kent Download Open image ““The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.’ ‘Peg”” — Hannah Kent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled… — Leonard Gardner Copy Share Image
“I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I will fly away to them, to the royal birds, and they will beat me, because I, that am so ugly, dare to come… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird.” — Oliver Reed Copy Share Image
“Startled pigeons filled the old, shadowy rooms and crumbling hallways with their soft thunder.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you throw a crumb to hungry birds, they will harm each other fighting for it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The firebird drops a feather, was his summary, and if you're fool enough to pick it up and chase the bird itself, you're in… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a nest of… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“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… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Illugastadir, the farm by the sea, where the soft air rings with the clang of the smithy, and gulls caw, and seals roll over… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
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. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Some folks are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with skin a little a thinner, eyes a little keener… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“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… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
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,… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
