Moominsummer Madness Quotes

“A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“The main thing in life is to know your own mind.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“The spirit of adventure sped through his soul on mighty wings.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Isn't it fun when one's friends get exactly what suits them?”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“All his life Snufkin had longed to pull down notices that asked him not to do things he liked to do.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“How nice it feels to be good," she thought quietly.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“We'll always keep our bangles in brown pond water in the future. They're so much more beautiful that way”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Later in the evening Misabel went for a solitary stroll by the sea. She saw the moon rise and start his lonesome journey through the night.

"He's exactly like me," Misabel thought sadly. "So plump and lonely."

At this thought she felt so forsaken and mild that she had to cry a little.

"What are you crying for?" asked Whomper nearby.

"I don't know, but it feels nice," replied Misabel.

"But people cry because they feel sorry, don't they?" objected Whomper.

"Well, yes--the moon," Misabel replied vaguely and blew her nose. "The moon and the night and all the sadness there is..."

"Oh, yes," said Whomper.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“The Snork Maiden looked around her. Then she leaned forward and whispered in the Fillyjonk’s outstretched ear: “First you must turn seven times around yourself, mumbling a little and stamping your feet. Then you go backward to a well, and turn around, and look down in it. And then, down in the water, you’ll see the person you’re going to marry!” “And how do you get him up from there?” asked the Fillyjonk excitedly.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Flee!’ cried Moominmamma. ‘The police are here!’
She didn’t know what her Moomintroll had done, but she was convinced that she approved of it.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“- Tog nån in hängmattan? Frågade Mumin Pappan plötsligt.
Ingen hade kommit ihåg att ta in hängmattan.
- Det var bra, sa Mumin Pappan, den hade en gräslig färg.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Because we’re going to stay here a little while and calm down until I’ve learned your names. Light my pipe, someone!”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“There’s a lot of things one can’t understand,’ Moominmamma said to herself. ‘But why should everything be exactly as one is used to having it?”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Everything all right?’ asked Moomintroll.
Snufkin nodded. ‘Absolutely everything,’ he said.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Little My is used to taking care of herself,’ said the Mymble’s daughter. ‘I’m more worried about the people that happen to cross her path.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Try to be good now if you can find the time, because in a little while we’re all going to heaven.’
‘Heaven?’ asked Little My. ‘Do we have to?”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“- Försök bli snäll om du hinner för nu ska vi nog snart in i himlen allihop.
- Himlen? upprepa Lilla My, Måste vi in i himlen och hur kommer man ut därifrån?”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Hädanefter ska vi alltid ha våra smycken i brunt källvatten, dom är mycket vackrare där.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Den stora världen är farlig, där är det ingen som känner till en och vet vad man tycker om och vad man är rädd för.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“Natten var full av oro, det brakade och gnisslade utanför väggarna och tunga vågor dunkade mot fönsterluckorna”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“This is a matter of feeling,’ said Misabel. ‘And such things can never be explained.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“I grunnen hadde ingen av dem lyst til å snakke. Ennå. De hadde god tid, sommeren lå lang og full av løfter foran dem.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness