Burial Rites
Hannah Kent
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
“I was worst to the one I loved best.”
“Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.”
“They will see the whore, the madwoman, the murderess, the female dripping blood into the grass and laughing with her mouth choked with dirt. They will say “Agnes” and see the spider, the witch caught in the webbing of her own fateful weaving. They might see the lamb circled by ravens, bleating for a lost mother. But they will not see me. I will not be there.”
“Blíndur er bóklaus ma∂ur. Blind is a man without a book.”
“I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!”
“They see I’ve got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted.”
“The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.”
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