Hannah Kent

‘They pick a mouse to tame a cat.’

It seems that with each passing day I become more like an animal to them, another dull-eyed beast to feed with what can be scraped together and to be kept out of the weather.

‘A man must be true to his word.’

And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Opt er flagð í fögru skinni.

I so often feel that I am barely here, that to feel weight is to be reminded of my own existence.

I so often feel that I am barely here, that to feel weight is to be reminded of my own existence.

I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate.

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

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