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Them Quotes by Tove Jansson
- I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
- Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise.
- Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly…
- It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top…
- He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of…
- Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard.…
- ...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.
- But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry…
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