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Of course, there was no cheese to be seen, but that didn’t stop Miika. If you believed in something you didn’t need to see it.
‘It’s perfectly safe, I’m sure. And even if it’s not, we must never let fear be our guide.’
‘An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet
‘To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That’s the first elf rule. You can’t see something you don’t believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.’
‘Trouble doesn’t always have to be caused. It’s sometimes already there.’
In a world like that it’s very easy to be bad. So when someone is good, or kind, it’s a magic in itself. It gives people hope. And hope is the most wonderful thing there is.’
Perhaps a wish was just a hope with a better aim.
Nothing makes you grow up quicker than discovering your father is not the man you think he is.
Toys are great. But being good is better than being rich.
To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.
Every day, not only did he wear his red and white outfit, complete with shiny black belt and boots, but he was determined to be as jolly as could be, because the easiest way to make other people happy was to be happy yourself, or at least to act as if you were.
