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PERHAPS THE REASON PEOPLE called Anna Aemelin nice was because nothing had ever forced her to exhibit malice, and because she had an uncommon ability to forget unpleasant things.
“Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.”
Katri had scrubbed the room above the storekeeper’s shop, scrubbed it with a kind of painstaking rage, the way women clean when they can’t lash out.
In any event, it was not even the least bit Anna’s fault.
We arrange things this way and that way, and in the final analysis we still have our tails behind us.”
Anna had given the dog a name because nameless things have a tendency to grow.
She eats only grass, but she has a meat eater’s heart. And
How many different truths are there, and what justifies them? What a person believes? What a person accomplishes? Self-deception? Is it only the result that counts? I no longer know.
They were just as innocent as all those depraved children who only wanted to take and take and take..?
