"I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland."

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Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

Hannah Kent

#Iceland Quotes #Stories Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.”
“We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!”
“Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.”
“I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?”
“The question is grateful to who? Â You would think grateful to Allah, but Allah didnâ€™t mention Himself. Â So it could be grateful to Allah, grateful to your parents, grateful to your teachers, grateful for your health, grateful to friends. Â Grateful to anyone whoâ€™s done anything for you. Â Grateful to your employer for giving you a job. Â Appreciative. Â Grateful is not just an act of saying Alhamdulilah. Â Grateful is an attitude, itâ€™s a lifestyle, itâ€™s a way of thinking. Youâ€™re constantly grateful.”
“Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.”
“People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.”
“There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.”

Source : Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”

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