Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's good," the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.

For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.