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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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“I prefer a story to a prayer.”

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“Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.”

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“Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a nest of…

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“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…

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“Illugastadir, the farm by the sea, where the soft air rings with the clang of the smithy, and gulls caw, and seals roll over…

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“The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.’ ‘Peg”

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“cradling dead bodies in its cage of burnt beams.”

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The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

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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.

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“Some folks are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with skin a little a thinner, eyes a little keener…

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“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…

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