Burial Rites Quotes

Question 1

How was she to know the ins and outs of social niceties one was obliged to perform for fat men in red jackets

Answer 1

An excellent intellect, and strong knowledge and understanding of Christianity

Question 2

My soul blossomed

Answer 2

These people did not see me. I was two dead men. I was a burning farming. I was a knife. I was blood

Question 3

In their eyes I am already a dead woman, destined for the grave.

Answer 3

Like a cow I go where I am led

Question 4

Creatures should be loved for their wisdom If they can not be loved for kindness

Answer 4

Blondal wants to set an example

Question 5

I takes a man, a good man, to know how to manage a woman who has made her bed among stones

Answer 5

Nothing is simple

Question 6

I am the property of the crown now

Answer 6

To feel weight is to be reminded of my own existence

Question 7

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

Answer 7

She was always fixed on bettering herself. Wanted to get on above her station. - dagga

Question 8

If there’s anything worth knowing about her character it will be in the ministerial book

Answer 8

God knows I have met enough men to know that once weaned off the breast they begin to lie through their teeth

Question 9

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

Answer 9

People claim to know you through the things you’ve done and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

Question 10

If you make a mistake in this valley, it’s never forgotten

Answer 10

I’ve told the truth and you can see for yourself how it has served me

Question 11

No Doves come from ravens eggs

Answer 11

Talking to him only reminds me of how everything in my life has worked against me, and how unloved I have been.

Question 12

I am Agnes- bloody knowing Agnes

Answer 12

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

Question 13

It seems everyone I love is taken from me and buried in the ground, while I remain alone

Answer 13

That is how I came to be a pauper. Left to the mercy of others, whether they had any or no.

Question 14

So lonely I make friends with the ravens who prey on lambs

Answer 14

She is a woman loose with her emotions, and looser with her morals

Question 15

I’ve never known tongues to wag faster than they do in this valley

Answer 15

Has Steina ever had to decide whether to let a farmer up her skirts and face the wrath of his wife, who will force her to do the shit-work, or to deny him and find herself homeless in the snow and fog, all doors barred against her?

Question 16

Blondal likes only one this better than religious chastisement, and that is the sound of his own voice

Answer 16

Maria told me that men might do as they please, and that they are all Adams, naming everything under the sun

Question 17

It was the drop of the match. I did not see that we were surrounded by tinder until I felt it burst into flames

Answer 17

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight if his arguments

Question 18

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

Answer 18

He would haul me out of the valley, out of the husk of my miserable loveless life

Question 19

Illugastadir is almost on the edge of the world

Answer 19

The work a maid like her had to do just for the privilege of giving her life awa

Question 20

You have had to fight for everything

Answer 20

Just because you play at being a wife, does not make you a married woman

Question 21

I’m not worth much- Agnes to Margret

Answer 21

She’s not worth the time you give her - rev. Jon to Toti

Question 22

I am barren, nothing will grow from me anymore

Answer 22

I will bite the hand that feeds me, that refuses to love me, that leaves me

Question 23

And if no one will say your name you are forgotten I am forgotten

Answer 23

We are all under water and I cannot swim

Question 24

They will blow us all out, one by one, until it is only their own light by which they see themselves

Answer 24

This is not life; waiting in darkness