Hanna

“Leaf litter on the forest floor,
slowly becoming soil,
does not represent the failure
of past summers' trees.
It is the process by which the past
nourishes the present and future.
The same is true for my old selves,
my bygone passions,
last season's interests.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Death crowded out all the voices that had been prodding him along. In that quiet aftermath, he listened to a new and perfect internal silence, waiting for the small voice that was his actual desire, divorced from practicality and social expectation. When that voice finally came, soft and distant, raspy with disuse, it spoke of childhood memories of the woods and the wild things that called it home.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Strange Animals

“He was still seen as weird.
If he was noticed at all.
[...]
Flipping through the book, reading page after page of spirits with names like djinn and stafie, he realized he wasn't the only one who didn't feel seen. That the world was filled with entities who were here but invisible, present but ignored.
[...]
She wouldn't understand that he sees ghosts as, no pun intended, kindred spirits. That when he opens The Giant Book and sees illustrations of all these scary, fantastical, misunderstood spirits, it feels like they could be the friends he lacks.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“maailman säännöt, [..]
eivät ole herkille
meille on omat huoneentaulut:
unohda järki, luota tunteeseen
älä mieti, mitä muut ajattelevat
riittää, ettet satuta ketään
auta, jos voit
neuvo, jos pyydetään
usko intuitioon ja uniin, ne eivät valehtele
kuvittele toiveet todeksi!”
― Kirsti Kuronen, Kolme senttiä sekunnissa