Quotes by Finnish Authors - Page 4

You don't think you're a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.
Jennifer Loiske
Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.
Jennifer Loiske
Could I be brave enough to look lower? I could. His black tee shirt licked his hard body and I could only guess what was hidden underneath it. His faded jeans hung dangerously low, revealing a slice of his narrow hips, and I could easily imagine the rest.
Jennifer Loiske
There is no greater love than a maker’s for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.
Hannu Rajaniemi
Voi rakkaanisydän on kylmäja sammalta käteni kasvaaMinun reiteni mullassa hajoovat maaksiJa haudalla risti jo lahona on.Olen maa.Olen maa johon tahdot.
Timo K. Mukka
The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.
Hassan Blasim
I wish I was more Moomin-minded.
Tove Jansson
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.
Pentti Linkola
For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands    towards these strange doors    to these foreign gates.
Elias Lönnrot
Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä]
Väinö Linna
Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.
Tomi Ahonen
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
Tove Jansson
Mel eventually gave up trying to talk to him and just sat there looking at him. There was not likely to be much to look at, apart from the red, puffy eyes, runny nose and the rest of the mess that was Kyle French. Certainly not the once good-looking young student that Mel had developed a crush on.
Pamela Harju
Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.
Mika Waltari
I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time.""Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.
Tove Jansson
Question everything and start from yourself.
Iisakki Totuudentalo
When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?
Hannu Vilponen
A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
Michael Monroe