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Quotes About Resilience

Hän seisoi hiljaa, aivan hiljaa, puristi posliinista kisssanpoikaa ja ajatteli: Voi, minun kaunis, ihana onnettomuuteni...
~ Tove Jansson
Such things happen," said Too-ticky
~ Tove Jansson
Uno se debe encontrar muy solo cuando todo el mundo te tiene miedo.
~ Tove Jansson
Well, things can't get much worse -- that's one consolation," the Muskrat groaned. He had hidden himself in a forest of bracken in the bathroom, and had wrapped his head in a handkerchief so that nothing should grow into his ears.
~ Tove Jansson
Jos yritän saada kaiken entiselleen, niin minusta itsestänikin tulee samanlainen kuin ennen. Alan taas pelätä.
~ Tove Jansson
Moomin need not have worried, for the Little My's of this world are practically indestructible.
~ Tove Jansson
Du får aldrig ett eget ansikte förrn du lär dig att slåss.
~ Tove Jansson
It's funny about love," Sophia said. "The more you love someone, the less he likes you back." "That's very true," Grandmother observed. "And so what do you do?" "You go on loving," said Sophia threateningly. "You love harder and harder.
~ Tove Jansson
When the kite was finished, it refused to fly and kept slamming into the ground as if it wanted to destroy itself, and finally it threw itself in the march. Sophia put it outside Grandmother's door and went away.
~ Tove Jansson
Minähän koen joka päivä maailmanlopun ja kuitenkin pukeudun ja riisuudun ja syön ja pesen astioita ja pidän teekutsuja aivan kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut!
~ Tove Jansson
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.
~ Tove Jansson
Listen," said the Hemulen. "I was born bald on top and really I get along very well.
~ Tove Jansson
To wash and iron and paint over and to feel sorry about all the irreparable things, and to know that there would still be cracks everywhere, and that all the things had been in much better shape before... No, no! And to put them all back into place in the dark and black rooms and try to find them cosy once more...
~ Tove Jansson
You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're save.
~ Tove Jansson
You'll never have a face of your own until you've learned to fight. (Little My to Ninny the Invisible Child)
~ Tove Jansson
Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. 'One has to discover everything for oneself,' she replied. 'And get over it all alone.
~ Tove Jansson
You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're safe.
~ Tove Jansson
It's funny about love", Sophia said. "The more you love someone, the less he likes you back." "That's very true," Grandmother observed. "And so what do you do?" "You go on loving," said Sophia threateningly. "You love harder and harder.
~ Tove Jansson
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~ Tove Jansson
There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end.
~ Tove Jansson
The Hemulen slid down onto the grass completely exhausted. "Oh!" he moaned. "There has never been anything but trouble and danger since I came into the Moomin family.
~ Tove Jansson
She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.
~ Tove Jansson
You first fight the waves, then you turn around and ride the surf, sailing along like a cork among the little rainbows of the foam, and land laughing and just a little frightened in the sand.
~ Tove Jansson
Sannheten må slås inn med harde spiker, men ikke noe menneske kan slå spiker i en madrass!
~ Tove Jansson