Alta Ifland > Quotes

“There was a woman who, whatever she did,could not be...her eyes moistened in sympathy with the ocean of blue mist. And she tried once more to show that she was and opened her mouth to talk, but the words stopped in her throat, walled up. And out of her mouth grains of salt began flowing, piling up all around her body.”
― Alta Ifland, Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace

“Her home. She thought of her body inside and outside this house, like an uncanny phantom moving in a dreamy space. Was it because her soul was somewhere else? No, she didn't have a soul. Then why this feeling of strangeness, as if all things were receding behind a veil of smoke, and this painful certainty that if she tried to touch them, they would disappear in a universe beyond her reach? She thought of the ridiculous game with words she practiced now and then, in a language that wasn't hers to save a body that wasn't hers. She tried to imagine she was real. And she sank even deeper into the spiral of nowhere.”
― Alta Ifland, Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace

“The room, orphaned of silence, remains for a moment hanging in uncertainty, then its walls collapse with a noise of snow wounded at its core.”
― Alta Ifland, Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace

“Will she be anything else but a child, a child's body of light glimpsed in dreams between night and day?”
― Alta Ifland, Voice of Ice - Voix de Glace