“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.”
Source: Moominpappa at Sea
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Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914–2001Related quotes
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I thought Mommy's life was strange, not mine.”
Interview with TIME, 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20020403141617/http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/ayumi_hamasaki/int_ayumi2.html
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Short fiction, Companions on the Road (1975), Chapter 9, “The Dark” (p. 98)
Innkeeper's wife
Source: A Child is Born (1942)
Context: God pity us indeed, for we are human,
And do not always see
The vision when it comes, the shining change,
Or, if we see it, do not follow it,
Because it is too hard, too strange, too new,
Too unbelievable, too difficult,
Warring too much with common, easy ways,
And now I know this, standing in this light,
Who have been half alive these many years,
Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain,
Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect
Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."