Tainaron Quotes

“Then I know that in my dreams I can never capture the same sun-glow, and that the air that I breathe can never, there, flow as freshly in my cells, and I can never see so sharply or so far; and I believe once more that what is true can be seen by everyone, everyone.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“And this goes on all the time, incessantly,’ he said. ‘Tainaron is not a place, as you perhaps think. It is an event which no one measures. It is no use anyone trying to make maps. It would be a waste of time and effort. Do you understand now?”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“For precisely that reason, I did not pause at any of the big cities, but adjusted the pointer to the empty space between the radio stations, where no one was sending anything. To these regions, which were as deserted and roadless as the spaces between stars, I returned again and again. As I wandered through their integrity, I felt the happiness of an explorer, and I was bewitched by the ceaseless humming that rose like vapour from their nameless seas. It was secreted from the receiver as a radiation of the same strength, almost unchanging in wavelength, which brought to mind honey and the homes of thousands of bumblebees. It swayed before me like a curtain, like dancing dust; it was ceaseless happening, but nothing changed in it.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“How we secrete words around us, so that the eye of reality may not see us! In vain! So hopelessly thin and tattered a veil does not hide anything, and we writhe in the brightness of destiny. No shield, no armour, and neither will flesh ever return to the word.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“- Vai niin, Jäärä sanoi mitään myötätuntoa osoittamatta, suorastaan ilkamoiden. - Sinä siis tahdot, että jokaisen on oltava joku. Että mitä joku on alussa, sitä hänen täytyy olla lopussakin.
- No mutta! Jotain jatkuvuutta on oltava! huusin.
- Kehitystä tietysti, mutta samalla - uskollisuutta!”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“On näet niin, että ne jotka alati raahaavat talojaan mukanaan, pysyvät toisille tuntemattomina. Heistä voi nähdä vain pienen pilkahduksen, jos sitäkään; he ovat aina piilosilla. Ja sitten on niitä, jotka eivät sellaista asiaintilaa kestä, niitä, jotka haluavat nähdä kaiken kasvoista kasvoihin ja paljastaa, aukaista, näyttää koko maailmalle asioiden alastomuuden... Silloin tällöin houkutus käy heille ylivoimaiseksi, ja he halkaisevat jonkun onnettoman viimeisen kodin.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“Hay momentos en los que deseas no desear y luego miras dentro... Una serie interminable de deseos, infinitamente tus y todos los vosotros han sido ensartados en el resistente hilo de la memoria, y al finalno eres mas que ese hilillofino finisimo y este vibra, se tensa”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“Si algún día regresara y apareciera delante de mí, yo no sabría quién o qué sería, ni siquiera cuándo sucedería, pues aquí todo tiene su tiempo y su momento prescrito, desconocido para los demás.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“Para mí, un reino sobre el cual no existe mapa no es un reino de verdad, sino una barbarie, un caos, pura confusión.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“Lo sabía porque había escuchado la pregunta del rey Milinda: "¿Es quien nació el mismo que murió?", y escuchado la respuesta que no era sí o no.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“Some change imperceptibly, little by little, others quickly and once and for all, but everyone changes, and for that reason it is in vain to ask whose fate is the best. My”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“The glittering filament, finer than a hair, is far less than a denier in thickness. When a ray of sunlight struck it at the window at which I was examining it, I saw the thread blaze with all the colours of the spectrum.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City

“My unbelief had saved me, but the poor creature who believes that everything is true is the victim of his dreams.”
― Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City