10 quotes found
“I prefer a story to a prayer.”
“Believe me, Nra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best”
“Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best”
“Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyones bones.”
“Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their 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.”
“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 fa...”
“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 c...”
“Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tti: "Yes. Tti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and...”
“Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrt, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in nam...”
