Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. […]

Et kirjoita mitään, olet hiljaa vaan. Muista mitä mun äiti aina sanoi, vai oliko se Koivisto, että vaiti. Vaiti! Menet ulos kävelemään, katot kukkakauppojen ikkunoita, se siinä sun lähellä on aivan ihana, siinä mäessä. Menet sinne ja ostat jonkun. Heität vanhat pois, paitsi siinä meidän tuomassa oli kyllä kiva ruukku, säästä se. Meillä on täällä […]

At Browick, he said, teacher-student romances were known to happen from time to time, but he’d never had one because, before me, he’d never had the desire. I was the first student who put the thought in his head. There was something about me that made it worth the risk. I had an allure that […]