I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.
Tove JanssonAll things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
Tove JanssonIt's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.
Tove JanssonMost of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.
Tove JanssonHe was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.
Tove JanssonTags: nature
''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience...
How terrible.
Tags: feelingm-emptiness
Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events -- the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33
Tove JanssonBut he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.
Tove JanssonBefore we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.
Tove JanssonI need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.
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