Hannah Kent Quotes

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

The United States is a country of infinite second chances.

My transfer to Fenerbahce has been a kind of salvation.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

I have a second chance on life.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.