Tove Jansson

Thomas Warburton

When Moomintroll wakes up in January, he finds that winter has changed all his favorite places.

Moominland Midwinter

Nica

'Because the refrain is about the things one can't understand. I'm thinking about the aurora borealis. You can't tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.'

He looked at the cupboard in the corner and thought of how nice it was to know that his own old bath-gown was hanging inside it. That something certain and cosy still remained in the middle of all the new and worrying things.

Some things just are, but one never knows why, and one feels hopelessly apart.

'When one's dead, then one's dead,' said Too-ticky kindly. 'This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on there'll grow trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?'

'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about people who warm up the heroes afterwards.'

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