Inventory

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

Some of you may know me only as Eetu—an irrefutably unremarkable and prosaic name.
My pupils, however, have dubbed me with a vast share of creative and elegant nicknames, such as:
Eppe, Enderman, Slenderman, Kellon Koulu Final Boss, Mewing Final Boss, Master Eetu, Skibidi Frog, Vautsivau, The definition of GOAT, Infinite Aura Eetu, Aura Master, Eetu Ennustaja & Kepsutti

"If you do not control Marjo Heikkinen, Marjo Heikkinen will control you."

"If you gaze long enough into the course of Marjo Heikkinen, the course of Marjo Heikkinen will gaze back into you."

"Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference.
The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred.
If I’m to choose between one course of Marjo Heikkinen and another… I’d rather not choose at all."

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs.
Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons.
It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity.
It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.

"Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall.
And a very small man can cast a very large shadow."

"Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."

"It will get worse, but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again.
Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.
But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth."

"The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one,
but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate."

"The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived.
In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone."

"People like to invent monsters and monstrosities.
Then they seem less monstrous themselves."

"Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference.
The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred.
If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all."