“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“You gaze in the mirror and you see that you are not a coward but you have done a cowardly thing and that you’re not malicious but you have hurt her and you’re not embarrassment but you are ashamed.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“When you figured out Sam's dead mother's name, you decided that it was fate, and from that day forward, Sam would be your brother. A name is destiny, if you think it is.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“It was the first snow-fall since before New Year, and Moomintroll was greatly surprised.
One flake after the other landed on his warm snout and melted away. He caught several in his paw to admire them for a fleeting moment, he looked towards the sky and saw them sinking down straight at him, more and more, softer and lighter than bird's down.
'Oh, it's like this,' thought Moomintroll. 'I believed it simply formed on the ground somehow.'
The air was milder. There was nothing in sight except falling snow, and Moomintroll was caught by the same kind of excitement he used to feel at times when he was wading out for a swim. He threw off his bath-gown, and himself headlong in to a snowdrift.
'So that's winter too!' he thought. 'You can even like it!”
― Moominland Midwinter
One flake after the other landed on his warm snout and melted away. He caught several in his paw to admire them for a fleeting moment, he looked towards the sky and saw them sinking down straight at him, more and more, softer and lighter than bird's down.
'Oh, it's like this,' thought Moomintroll. 'I believed it simply formed on the ground somehow.'
The air was milder. There was nothing in sight except falling snow, and Moomintroll was caught by the same kind of excitement he used to feel at times when he was wading out for a swim. He threw off his bath-gown, and himself headlong in to a snowdrift.
'So that's winter too!' he thought. 'You can even like it!”
― Moominland Midwinter
“Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
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