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Tove Jansson

A Winter Book

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  • Настя Мозговаяhas quoted4 years ago
    Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.
  • djaylahhas quoted2 years ago
    Everything was topsy-turvy.
  • djaylahhas quoted3 years ago
    scrunching and squeaking noises
  • djaylahhas quoted3 years ago
    it in front of the fire and she says: “Once upon a time there was a little girl who was terribly pretty and her mummy liked her so awfully much …” Every story has to begin in the same way, then it’s not so important what happens. A soft, gentle voice in the warm darkness and one gazes into the fire and nothing is dangerous. Everything else is outside and can’t get in. Not now or at any time.
  • djaylahhas quoted3 years ago
    had a great responsibility and had to see what the snow was doing.
  • djaylahhas quoted3 years ago
    ou can close your mind to things if something is important enough.
  • djaylahhas quoted3 years ago
    made a tiny little room for myself where nothing existed except the stone and me
  • Настя Мозговаяhas quoted4 years ago
    On the last day, when Tooti was clearing up the cellar, she found one of our kites from the 1960s and took it out onto the slope. Just for fun, she gave it a little push on its tail and at that moment a gust of wind came along and took the kite with it and it flew high, straight up, and continued far out across the Gulf of Finland.
  • Настя Мозговаяhas quoted4 years ago
    I sat down and wrote that there is a fine balance between the absolute calm of arrival and the excitement of departure, then crossed out ‘fine’ and added ‘both are indispensable’ at the end, and began to wonder what I had really meant.
  • Настя Мозговаяhas quoted4 years ago
    We assured each other that it was more stylish to leave in time, before one was forced to, but this got a bit tedious if one said it too often.
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