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I was worst to the one I loved best.

We became caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant,

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

And though the snow smothered the valley and the milk froze in the dairy, my soul thawed.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

Natan Ketilsson fetched his wife from heaven's gate.

For the first time in my life, someone saw me, and I loved him because he made me feel I was enough.

I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

Everything I said was taken from me and altered until the story wasn't my own.

You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

No doves come from ravens' eggs

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

But I needed to create a life of my own. And here I

A tight fear, like a fishing line, hooked upon something that must, inevitably, be dragged from the depths. (Margret)

I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

Good Lord," he muttered "They pick a mouse to tame a cat.

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

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

I could flee to the heath. Show them that they cannot keep me locked up, that I am a thief of time and will steal the hours denied to me!

Death happened, and in the usual way it happens, and yet, not like anything else at all.

I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It's written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

The only thing I could think of was, if you move, you will crumble. If you breathe, you will collapse.

She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.

He lay back down on the snow. "What's the name for the space between stars?" "No such name." "Make one up." I thought about it. "The soul asylum.

In the cowshed, my head hard against the floor, Natan broke the very yolk of my soul.

Dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.

Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.

I prefer a story to a prayer.

Criminals of this stature are usually sent abroad for their punishment, where there are jailhouses

He knew me as one knows the seasons, knows the tide. Knew me like the smell of smoke, knew what I was, and what I wanted.

I try to love God, Reverend. I do. But I cannot love these men. I ... I hate them.

They see I've got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted.

She doesn't look like a criminal, he thought. Not since she's had a bath.

She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.

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

What else is God good for other than a distraction from the mire we're all stranded in?

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

Folks say, for every mountain there is a valley.

The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.' 'Peg

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

It is the waiting that cripples.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

Sleep came to me like a thin tide of water. It would lap against my body but never submerge me.

Is love constant for you? Have you ever loved a woman? A person you love as much as you hate the hold they have on you?

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

I feel drunk with summer and sunlight. I want to seize fistfuls of sky and eat them.

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

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.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.