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Ingveldur is Agnes, Jóas, and Helga’s mother. Ingveldur is known to be a “loose” woman, and she often has to move from farm to farm looking for posts as a servant. Ingveldur’s children are all fathered by different men Ingveldur works for. Ingveldur abandons Agnes when she’s a child, and later abandons Jóas. Agnes has mixed feelings towards her mother, sometimes of anger and other times of sadness and longing. Agnes feels she can understand the choices Ingveldur made. Jóas, on the other hand, cannot forgive her. As an adult, Agnes has no idea where her mother is or whether or not she is alive.
Ingveldur Rafnsdóttir Quotes in Burial Rites
The Burial Rites quotes below are all either spoken by Ingveldur Rafnsdóttir or refer to Ingveldur Rafnsdóttir. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things…It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. No matter how much you try to live a godly life, if you make a mistake in this valley, it’s never forgotten…Who was she really?…she made mistakes and others made up their minds about her. People around here don’t let you forget your misdeeds. They think them the only things worth writing down.
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Chapter 13
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I am crying and my mouth is open and filled with something, it is choking me and I spit it out. On the ground is a stone, and I look back at Margrét, and see that she did not notice. “The stone was in my mouth,” I say.
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Ingveldur Rafnsdóttir Quotes in Burial Rites
The Burial Rites quotes below are all either spoken by Ingveldur Rafnsdóttir or refer to Ingveldur Rafnsdóttir. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things…It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. No matter how much you try to live a godly life, if you make a mistake in this valley, it’s never forgotten…Who was she really?…she made mistakes and others made up their minds about her. People around here don’t let you forget your misdeeds. They think them the only things worth writing down.
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Chapter 13
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I am crying and my mouth is open and filled with something, it is choking me and I spit it out. On the ground is a stone, and I look back at Margrét, and see that she did not notice. “The stone was in my mouth,” I say.
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