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Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Difference Fringe Dwellers Power

Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Poverty

Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Experience Old Age Peg O Sea

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone’s bones.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Hate

I prefer a story to a prayer.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Stories

Sometimes, people never stood a chance in the beginning. Or they might have made a mistake. When people start saying things like she must be a bad mother because of that mistake. .... 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.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Knowing A Person Mistakes Unfairness

Agnes: I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth. Tóti: Yes. Agnes: And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tóti: Yes. Tóti said carefully. Agnes: Then Blondal and the rest are going against God. They're hypocrites. They say they are carrying out God's law but they are only doing the will of men.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Capital Punishment Hypocrisy Hypocrites

Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in naming things, you could prevent them from happening.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Death Insightful

People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Lion Speak Me
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