"Burial Rites" Quotes
A woman convicted of murder in 19th century Iceland awaits her execution while placed in the custody of a local family.
historical fiction | 336 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
They said I must die. They said that I stole the breath from men, and now they must steal mine.
I am skinned. I am pinned. I am stripped. I am pinned. I am stripped. I am pinned. I am done.
They will see the whore, the madwoman, the murderess, the female dripping blood into the grass and laughing with her mouth choked with dirt.
They did not see the body of a woman who had been crushed, who had been broken, who had been beaten.
I am orphaned, fatherless, motherless, husbandless, childless.
I am tired of being seen as a thing to be dragged about, a creature to be beaten and raped.
He is not a monster, not a demon, not the devil. He is a man.
Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another.
The worst part of being unloved is when you realize how much you love someone.
The past is made of glass, jutting into the present, never letting us forget.
