Amber

“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, Burial Rites

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“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.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites