Chalchihut

“Valossa katoavat kuvat,
kasvojen siitepölynhauraat viivat,
hiljaa hyrisevät nimet kivissä,
niin verkkaan kaikki haihtuu,
vain tämä jää:
lyhin tie onneen: unohdus.”
― Tuija Välipakka, Klovnin pelko

“ihmiset peloissaan
pukevat naamioita takahuoneissa
kävelevät halki ostoskeskusten
paljain kasvoin
julistavat toivovansa vapautta
mutta salaa rukoilevat ohjausta”
― Tuija Välipakka, Klovnin pelko

“I look down at the city again. From here the city resembles a severed head, incinerated and discarded by the side of the river; its cavernous eye sockets are empty, bundles of dead nerves dangle from its neck, its shattered mouth gapes, a few desolate wires hang from its stark, scorched skull and, suddenly and incomprehensibly and so foreign to my body I could weep, I feel my heart expand with what I can only describe as a sensation of hope. Is there a word for that? Hope in the face of grand calamity.”
― Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

“Seeing the world through others' eyes - think about it too much and at some point you end up not knowing where they end and you begin.”
― Christopher Eccleston, I Love the Bones of You: My Father and the Making of Me