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The Good People QUOTES

The Good People QUOTES

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

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

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

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

3 " How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

4 " Some folks are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with skin a little a thinner, eyes a little keener to what goes unnoticed by most. Their hearts swallow more blood than ordinary hearts; the river runs differently for them. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

5 " there is one thing that will sink sickness deeper into the body, ’tis loneliness. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

6 " The world isn’t ours,’ he said once. ‘It belongs to itself, and that is why it is beautiful. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

7 " How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it. Father "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

8 " What woman lives on her own with a goat and a low roof of drying herbs? What woman keeps company with the birds and the creatures that belonged to the dappled places? What woman finds contentment in such a solitary life, has no need of children or the comfort of a man? One who has been chosen to walk the boundaries. One who somehow has an understanding of the mysteries of the world and who sees in the clawing briars God's own handwriting. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

9 " Nora had always believed herself to be a good woman. A kind woman. But perhaps, she thought, we are good only when life makes it easy for us to be so. Maybe the heart hardens when good fortune is not there to soften it "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

10 " The moss on the forest floor comforted her bare feet, and she had felt protected by the canopy of leaves, had felt the wind to be a voice that rushed through her hair for no other purpose than to speak to her alone. How well she had known God, then. How unknotted her soul. How easy to be. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

11 " The cormorant on his rock shows you the wind and, depending on where he is facing to, where it is likely to come from. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

12 " Three days of fasting, she thought. She already felt lightheaded. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

13 " How slippery time had become. When she was younger the days had seemed unceasing. The world had felt infinitely full of wonder. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

14 " Drink makes you shoot the landlord.' 'Worse than that, it makes you miss. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

15 " But in that moment Nance had felt a quiet summoning to speak to Áine. There was a hesitation. A look of raw longing. That’s how it was with most people. All that private pain kept out of sight, but sometimes, in the space of one breath, something opened and you could see the heart of things before the door was shut again. It was as good as a vision. A murmur of vulnerability. A tremor in the soil before all was still.
How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

16 " The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.’ ‘Peg "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

17 " Yes. Nance knew about the Good People. She had felt Them in the woods, by the lake, where her mother gave herself up to them. Where she, as a child, had curled into a nest of exposed roots and the moonlight made the world seem strange and the air was thick, occupied. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

18 " No. In the valley the sick were faced with the usual crossroads of priest, blacksmith or graveyard "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

19 " she had been thrashed by womanhood; "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People

20 " An old broom knows the dirty corners best. "

― Hannah Kent , The Good People