Quotes by Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson

…now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.

Funny

Inspirational

Oatmeal

‎”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.

Mistake

Party

Sleep

A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected.

Expected

Looks

Persons

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

Grandmother

Long

Lost

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.

Islands

Rocks

Self

And all you can do is just read,” she said. She raised her voice an screamed, “You just read and read and read!” Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

Said

Tables

Voice

Before 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.

Grandmother

Light

Night

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

Beautiful

Book

Strange

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Dog

Mute

Smell

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you’re looking for. If you’re picking raspberries, you see only what’s red, and if you’re looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

Gathering

Peculiar

White

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Admire

Adventure

Autumn

Aversion

Beautiful

Believe

Bits

Book

Calm

Calm Down

Circles

Clever

Curiosity

Danger

Dangerous

Darkness

Doe

Dog

Done

Effort

Enthusiasm

Expected

Fall

Family

Flower

Funny

Gathering

Goes On

Grandmother

Hair

Helping

Hero

Ideas

Imagine

Imagine That

Important

Inspirational

Intelligent

Islands

Jam

Journey

Lamps

Life

Light

Likes

Lonely

Long

Looks

Lost

Lying

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Quotes by Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson

…now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.

‎”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.

A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

And all you can do is just read,” she said. She raised her voice an screamed, “You just read and read and read!” Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

Before 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.

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you’re looking for. If you’re picking raspberries, you see only what’s red, and if you’re looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

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