Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
Tove Janssonโ''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.
Tove JanssonItโs only the sea,โ said Moomintroll. โEvery wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustnโt go inside because itโs a labyrinth and you may never come out again.
Tove JanssonThere are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything thatโs a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that donโt fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everythingโs quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleepโthen they appear.
Tove Jansson