A biography for Emmi Itärantahasn’t been written yet.
“Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.”
“Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”