Hanna avasi television, joka esitti kolmosella amerikkalaista sarjaa. Ihmiset olivat kauniita ja selvisivät ongelmistaan, vaikka kaupunki olisi tuhottu ympäriltä. Olisipa kaikki oikeastikin niin helppoa. Häntä halutti repiä kaikki kappaleiksi, rikkoa jotain, huutaa ja raivota, että edes joku kuuntelisi eikä olisi vain kuuntelevinaan. Että joku tarttuisi käteen, lohduttaisi, näyttäisi oikean suunnan, jonka hän oli kadonnut. Tyhjyys tuntui raskaalta kuin lyijypaino, joka veti hitaasti, mutta varmasti pinnan alle. Hän vetäisi henkeä ikään kuin olisi jo hukkumassa ja hänen oli noustava ylös.
Hanna turned on the television where the third season of an American series was being aired. The people were beautiful and were dealing with their problems even though the city was destroyed from around. If only everything was actually so easy. She wanted to tear everything to pieces, break something, shout and rage so that even somebody would listen and wouldn't just be pretending to listen. So that somebody would grab her hand, comfort her, show the right direction she had lost. The emptiness felt heavy like a lead weight which pulled her slowly but certainly under the surface. She would take a breath as if she was already drowning, and she had to stand up.
* esittää : (transitive) to express, offer, set/put forth, state, to show, present, to perform
* kolmonen : number three (anything that is third or with the number three)
* amerikkalainen : American
* sarja : series
* tuhota : (transitive) to destroy
* haluttaa : (impersonal + partitive) to be in the mood for/to, to want (with first infinitive "to do")
* repiä : (transitive) to tear, rip
* kappale : piece (part of a larger whole)
* repiä kappaleiksi : to tear something to pieces
* rikkoa : (transitive) to break
* huutaa : (intransitive, transitive) to shout, yell
* raivota : (intransitive) to rage
* Quasi Construction : olla + (plural) active present participle + the essive + a possessive suffix : to be pretending to do something
* tarttua : (intransitive) to catch, grab, seize (with illative)
* lohduttaa : (transitive, usually atelic) to comfort, console
* suunta : direction
* lyijypaino : lead weight
* henki : breath
* vetää henkeä : to take a breath
* hukkua : (intransitive) to drown
