Vera

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“- Nyt uimahuoneesta tulee jälleen uimahuone, hän sanoi.
- Sitten kun tulee kuuma ja kaikkialla vihertää ja sinä makaat vatsa uimalaiturin lämpöisiä lankkuja vasten ja kuulet miten vesi liplattaa rannassa...
- Mikset sanonut tuota talvella? huoahti Muumipeikko.
- Se olisi lohduttanut minua. Minä sanoin: täällä kasvoi omenoita. Ja sinä vastasit vain: mutta nyt kasvaa lunta. Etkö käsittänyt, että minä olin alakuloinen?
Tuu-tikki kohautti hartioitaan. - Täytyy päästä itse selville kaikesta, hän sanoi. - Ja kiivetä yli aivan yksin.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It's a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you've got in as many supplies as you can. It's nice to gather together everything you possess as close to you as possible, to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core of safety where you can defend what is important and precious and your very own. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their worst. They can grope their way up the walls looking for a way in, but they won't find one, everything is shut, and you sit inside, laughing in your warmth and your solitude, for you have had foresight.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November