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Quotes About Connection

We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.
~ Tove Jansson
There was so much to talk about that nothing was said. It was warm sitting there on the steps. Everything seemed to be so right.
~ Tove Jansson
People carry their loved ones with them. They are forever present.
~ Tove Jansson
How easy it is to love.
~ Tove Jansson
a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult
~ Tove Jansson
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?
~ Tove Jansson
Käsitätkö," sanoi isä. "On saatava selville mere salaiset lait, se on kaiken perusta. Minun täytyy ymmärtää merta, jotta voisin pitää siitä. En voi rakastaa tätä saarta ellen pidä merestä.
~ Tove Jansson
People carry their loved ones with them. They are forever present, and life is full of easily grasped opportunities to show them one's affection. It costs so little and achieves so much.
~ Tove Jansson
Why aren't people afraid of their dogs? How long can what was once a wild animal deny its wildness?
~ Tove Jansson
Because we're going to stay here a little while and calm down until I've learned your names. Light my pipe, someone!
~ Tove Jansson
Love and kisses to those too old and too young to come to the party.
~ 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
A todos los animalitos se les enrosca la cola
~ Tove Jansson
Somewhere on the other side of it all is Snufkin,' Moomintroll said to himself. 'He's sitting somewhere in the sun, peeling an orange. If I only knew that he knew that I'm climbing these mountains for his sake, then I could do it. But all alone I'll never manage it.
~ Tove Jansson
Dlaczego nie pozwolÄ… mi nigdy zachowa? moich wspomnieÅ" o wÄ™drówkach tylko dla siebie? Czy nie mogÄ… zrozumie?, ?e gadaniem niszczÄ… wszystko? JeÅ›li im opowiadam, to potem nic nie zostaje. PamiÄ™tam tylko swoje wÅ'asne opowiadanie, kiedy staram siÄ™ przypomnie? sobie, jak byÅ'o.
~ Tove Jansson
The garnets would have gone in the rucksack," said Sniff miserably. "You don't need hands for that. It's not the same thing at all just looking at them. I want to touch them and know they're mine.
~ Tove Jansson
It's a beautiful thought, to meet a writer only in her books.
~ Tove Jansson
Han gikk og gikk, men ikke noe hendte, skjønt det var fullt av folk på alle hold. Og knøttet møtte ingen som han kjente, for knøttet var et meget ensomt lite troll, og altfor sky og blyg til å si : Hei! Kan jeg få snakke litt med deg?
~ Tove Jansson
Isn't it a nice thing to know that someone's longing for you and waiting and waiting to see you again? (Little Creep to Snufkin)
~ Tove Jansson
What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.
~ Townes Van Zandt
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
~ Townsend Harris
The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
~ T-Pain
Let them love and be loved back, like I have been
~ Trace Adkins
Even when he didn't know me, Lonnie was there to catch my falls.
~ Unknown