Serena Campbell

“Blíndur er bóklaus ma∂ur. Blind is a man without a book.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we became caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“I preferred to read than talk with the others.”
― 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