Tove Jansson

Moominland Midwinter (Moomin Books)

Iris Adi

I’m cold! I’m lonely! I want the sun back again!’

The sea lay asleep under the ice, and deep down among the roots of the earth all small beasts were sleeping and dreaming of spring.

‘It’s only I who am awake and sleepless. It’s only I who have to wander and wander, day after day and week upon week, until I too become a snowdrift that no one will even know about.’

‘Frighten me if you can,’ he thought happily. ‘I’m wise to you now. You’re no worse than anything else when one gets to know you.

It’s dead. All the world has died while I slept. This world belongs to somebody else whom I don’t know.

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