Quotes from Tove Jansson

Love and kisses to those too old and too young to come to the party.

Minähän koen joka päivä maailmanlopun ja kuitenkin pukeudun ja riisuudun ja syön ja pesen astioita ja pidän teekutsuja aivan kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut!

He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary.

But I was held down to earth by being constantly reminded that the world expects much of the gifted and that having talent is never an excuse for not using it.

Det är en kväll för en sång, tänkte Snusmumriken. En ny visa som ska ha en del förväntan i sig och två delar vårmelankoli och resten bara hejdlös förtjusning över att få vandra och vara ensam och trivas med sig själv.

Kuun noustessa punaiset hämähäkit pariutuvat asumattomilla luodoilla, koko kallio on yhtä ja samaa tiuhaa hämähäkkimattoa, jossa vilisee pieniä, hurmioituneita olioita.

Huh! sanoi Hemuli. -Hyi, miten minä pelästyin. Tiedättehän, ettei minua saa pelästyttää, minulta voi mennä sydän väärään kurkkuun.

Stol på meg, frøken Aemelin, folk som man kan lure, liker man litt mindre.

A great sadness gripped her. It can be sad having a friend you've admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.

Frøken Aemelin, nesten alt det som folk gjør mot hverandre, betyr som handling betraktet svært lite. Det som er avgjørende, er deres formål, hvor de vil hen, hva de vil ha tak i.

I'm going to sleep outside. I don't want a bed. Beds are stupid.

That's strange, Grandmother thought. I can't describe things any more. I can't find the words, or maybe it's just that I'm not trying hard enough. It was such a long time ago. No one here was even born. And unless I tell it because I want to, it's as if it never happened; it gets closed off and then it's lost.

Here in the shadow of the firs lay everything the old house had spat out in the course of its life, everything worn out and unnecessary, everything not to be seen. In the darkening winter evening, this landscape was utterly abandoned, a territory that had no meaning for anyone but him. He found it beautiful.

Oletko sinä onnellinen? minä kysyin. -Hyvältä tuntuu, mutisi Fredrikson ja katsoi hämillään merelle. (Siitä tiesin että hän oli kauhean onnellinen.)

Folk våknet sent, for det var ikke noen morgen lenger, fiskerleiet lå lydløst under urørt snø mellom husene, til barna ble sluppet ut og gravde tunneler og huler og skrek og skulle passe seg selv.

Märkvärdigt att en så stor och långdragen besvikelse så kvickt kan glömmas for en ny förälskelse men så var det.

She put on a white dress and went around all day with roses in her hair and sang hymns.

Dobre vieÅ¡, že život je sám o sebe dosÃ…Â¥ Ã…Â¥ažký, než aby bol potom ?lovek za? trestaný. Moje dieÃ…Â¥a, aj keby som sa akoko?vek snažila, nemôžem vo svojom veku za?aÃ…Â¥ veriÃ…Â¥ v diabla. Ty môžeÅ¡ veriÃ…Â¥, ?omu chceÅ¡, ale musíÅ¡ sa nau?iÃ…Â¥ byÃ…Â¥ tolerantná.

Jäärouva kumarsi kauniit kasvonsa oravan puoleen ja raaputti sitä korvan takaa hajamielisenä. Orava katsoi lumoutuneena häneen, suoraan hänen kylmiin, sinisiin silmiinsä. Jäärouva hymyili ja jatkoi matkaaansa. Mutta hänen askeltensa jäljillä makasi orava jäykkänä ja kylmänä, pienet jalat ilmassa. - Nyt kävi huonosti, sanoi Tuu-tikki kipakasti ja veti lakin korvilleen.

What has happened now is that I've fallen madly in love with a woman. And it seems to me so absolutely natural and genuine – there's nothing problematic about it at all. I just feel proud and uncontrollably glad. These last weeks have been like one long dance of rich adventure, tenderness, intensity – an expedition into new domains of great simplicity and beauty.

A todos los animalitos se les enrosca la cola

Do you know the difference between the first love and the last? It's this: you always think the first love is the last and the last the first...

Najednou se muminka zmocnila taková radost, že se musel odebrat do samoty. Okdrá?el pomalu ke k?lnÄ›. A když ho nikdo nevidÄ›l, dal se do bÄ›hu. B?žel v roztálém snÄ›hu, slunce se mu opíralo do zad a on b?žel a b?žel, protože byl Å¡Å¥astný a na nic nemyslel.

Hemul sa pomaly zobudil a zistil, že je to on sám. Želal si vÅ¡ak byÃ…Â¥ niekým, koho nepozná.