“Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.”

—  Tove Jansson , book Moominland Midwinter

Source: Moominland Midwinter

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Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914–2001

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