11 Quotes by Emmi Itäranta

Menetys ja suru ovat fyysisiä aistimuksia", sanonin. "Keho muistaa ne vuodesta toiseen.

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

Suurin osa maasta jalkojemme alla kasvoi ja hengitti kerran, ja kerran sillä oli elävien muoto, kauan sitten. Jonain päivänä joku, joka ei muista meitä, kävelee ihomme ja lihamme ja luidemme yli, yli tomun joka meistä jää.

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

Sometimes it is necessary to step into darkness alone and find your way back. To carry something with you into light you could not have found anywhere else.

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Secrets carve us like water carves stone. On the surface nothing will shift, but things we cannot tell anyone chafe and consume us, and slowly our life settles around them, moulds itself into their shape.Secrets gnaw at the bonds between people. Sometimes we believe they can also build them: if we let another person into the silent space a secret has made within us, we are no longer alone there.