Emmi Itaranta Quotes

#1. We are children of water, and water is death's close companion. The two cannot be separated from us, for we are made of the versatility of water and the closeness of death. They go together always, in the world and in us, and the time will come when our water runs dry.

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#2. I looked back towards the city, at the dusty plain and the narrow thread of the sea on the horizon, radiant in the late-afternoon sun like the scale coat of a giant dragon disappearing slowly from sight.

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#3. A circle only knows its own shape. If you ask where it begins and where it ends, it will stay silent, yet unbroken.

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#4. Water walks with the moon and embraces the earth, and it isn't afraid to die in fire or live in air. When you step into it, it will be as close as your own skin, but if you hit it too hard, it will shatter you .

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#5. 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.

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#6. Some things shouldn't be seen. Some things don't need to be said.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. It's not worth thinking about them, Noria. They didn't think about us, either.

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#10. The story tells that water has a consciousness, that it carries in its memory everything that's ever happened in this world, from the time before humans until this moment, which draws itself in its memory even as it passes.

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#11. Most of the soil we walk on once grew and breathed, and once it had the shape of the living, long ago. One day someone who doesn't remember us will walk on our skin and flesh and bones, on the dust that remains of us.

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#12. the silent space around a secret is shattered, it cannot be made whole again. The

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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

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#16. When the Ocean-Dragons roam, it means the world is changing,' I said.

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#17. The ceremony is over when there is no more water.

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