"Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about……" — Tove Jansson
"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. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us."
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Tove Jansson
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71 Quotes by Tove Jansson
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One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.
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