Moomins Quotes

“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”
― Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch

“The world’s asleep,’ Moomintroll thought. ‘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.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter

“Strangely enough it was the most timid of them all, Salome the Little Creep, who really liked the Hemulen. She longed to hear him play the horn. But alas! The Hemulen was so big and always in such a hurry that he never noticed her.
No matter how fast she ran he always left her far behind, on his skis, and when she at last overtook the music, it ceased, and the Hemulen began doing something else.
A couple of times Salome the Little Creep tried to explain how much she admired him. But she was far too shy and ceremonious, and the Hemulen never had been a good listener.
So nothing of any consequence was said.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter

“Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?'
'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings...”
― Tove Jansson

“Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them.”
– Moominpappa”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa at Sea

“Moomin need not have worried, for the Little My's of this world are practically indestructible.”
― Tove Jansson

“Hattifatteners," Hodgkins said. "Electrical sailing."
"Hattifatteners," I whispered excitedly. "Traveling and traveling and never getting there..."
"Thunderstorms charge them," Hodgkins said. "Sting like nettles."
"And they live a wicked life," the Joxter informed.
"A wicked life?" I repeated with interest. "How?"
"I don't quite know," said the Joxter. "Trampling down people's gardens and drinking beer, and so on, I suppose."
We sat there for a long time looking after the Hattifatteners sailing out toward the horizon. I felt a strange desire to join them on their voyage and share their wicked life. But I didn't say it.”
― Tove Jansson

“But Snufkin took out his mouth-organ and played his gayest adventure-song (not just-the-right-sized adventure, but a terrific one) about rescues and surprises and sunshine.”
― Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland

“This is Daddy's bathing-house," Moomintroll said.
Too-ticky gave him a serious look. "You may be right, and you may be wrong," she said. "In the summer it belonged to a daddy. In winter it belongs to Too-ticky.”
― Tove Jansson

“You must have invited quite a lot of people up here for sea-pudding, I should think."
"Oh yes," said the boy. "People from every corner of the world. Snuffkins, Sea-ghosts, Little Creeps and Big Folk, Snorks and Hemulens. And the odd angler fish, too.”
― Tove Jansson, The Moomins and the Great Flood