Begins Quote by Hannah Kent

“I prefer a story to a prayer.”

— Hannah Kent

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

— 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…

— Hannah Kent

“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

“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

“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

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

— Hannah Kent

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

— Hannah Kent

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

— Hannah Kent

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

“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

“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