Moominsummer Madness

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

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

The spirit of adventure sped through his soul on mighty wings.

Isn't it fun when one's friends get exactly what suits them?

We'll always keep our bangles in brown pond water in the future. They're so much more beautiful that way

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.

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.

Because we’re going to stay here a little while and calm down until I’ve learned your names. Light my pipe, someone!

How nice it feels to be good," she thought quietly.