Marisa

“Is it true you were born in the eighteen-hundreds?" Sophia yelled through the window.
"What of it?" Grandmother answered, very distinctly.
"What do you know about the eighteen-hundreds?"
"Nothing, and I'm not interested, either," Sophia shouted and ran away.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“When the kite was finished, it refused to fly and kept slamming into the ground as if it wanted to destroy itself, and finally it threw itself in the march. Sophia put it outside Grandmother's door and went away.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an eye on herself.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book