The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.