As White as Snow Quotes

“Longing was a feeling that was hard to live with. It didn’t ask permission. It didn’t pay attention to time or place. It was overwhelming and demanding, grasping and selfish. It clouded thoughts or made them too bright, too sharp. Longing demanded unconditional surrender. Lumikki tried to fight it and failed. She didn’t want to long and yet she longed. She didn’t want to remember, and yet her dreams and her body remembered, reminding her constantly.
The longing was physical. It was dizziness. It was a seizing in her belly. It was the need to wrap her arms around herself alone in bed when there was no one else to do it for her. She felt the longing in her fingertips that yearned to stroke, to touch, to caress. The longing made her fingers restless, fiddling with the zipper of her jacket, the strings in her hoodie, fidgeting with whatever little thing happened to her hand. The longing made her teeth bite into her lower lip, leaving it chipped and almost bleeding. She knew she was being stupid. She knew her longing was pointless.”
― Salla Simukka, As White as Snow

“Ooit had ze een zus gehad.”
― Salla Simukka, As White as Snow

“Excuse me, I'm looking for a man,' begon ze.
Nu leek het gezicht van de receptioniste te willen zeggen: 'Je bent niet de enige, darling.”
― Salla Simukka, As White as Snow

“Een interview en een onnatuurlijke dood op dezelfde dag. Lumikki voelde aan dat dat geen toeval kon zijn.”
― Salla Simukka, As White as Snow