305 Quotes by Tove Jansson

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.

I’ll have to calm down a bit. Or else I’ll burst with happiness.

It’s risky to talk about one’s most secret dreams a bit too early.

You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Of course, Moomintrolls don’t wear clothes, except sometimes in bed.

It was definitely finished, and for one moment the sadness of completion overtook the Hemulen.

All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.

A new door to the Unbelievable, to the Possible, a new day that can always bring you anything if you have no objection to it.

I remember the dog at home, when I was a girl; the one that killed chickens. They tied a dead hen around his neck and he carried it around with him all day until he just lay there unmoving with his eyes shut in a morass of shame. It was cruel. There’s nothing so hideously easy as giving someone a bad conscience.