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

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

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

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

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

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

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But 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.

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

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

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

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.