Top 100 Quotes About Tove
#1. During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.
Amanda Hocking
#2. Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling.
"Well ... no," I admitted.
"Do it."
"How?"
He shrugged. "Figure it out."
"You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.
Amanda Hocking
#3. I can't marry Tove!"
"Why ever not?" She batted her dark lashes at me.
"Because I don't love him!"
"Love is a fairy tale that manks tell their children so they'll have grandchildren," Elora said, brushing me off.
Amanda Hocking
#4. But I think they aren't as hard to defeat as we once thought. They're not fighters."
"I'm sure that will be real comforting to all the dead people here," Tove said.
Amanda Hocking
#5. That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by [Tove] Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure.
Ali Smith
#6. My loyalty lies with you, Princess," Tove smiled. "I trust you, and other Trylle will learn to trust you, once they see what you can do.
Amanda Hocking
#7. I haven't prepared my speech yet," I sighed and Tove stood up. "What should I say about him?" "Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you're going to have to lie," Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.
Amanda Hocking
#8. Tove had blown the doors open with his abilities, and he stood on the other side of them, looking astonishigly bad ass.
Amanda Hocking
#9. There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.
Tove Lo
#10. I never felt like I was forced to do anything.
Tove Styrke
#11. When one's dead, one's dead ... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?
Tove Jansson
#12. It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.
Tove Jansson
#13. My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.
Tove Jansson
#14. Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
Tove Jansson
#15. We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.
Tove Lo
#16. I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time."
"Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.
Tove Jansson
#17. A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
Tove Lo
#18. You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.
Tove Styrke
#19. Of course, Moomintrolls don't wear clothes, except sometimes in bed.
Tove Jansson
#20. I'm not from a music family at all.
Tove Lo
#21. That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
Tove Lo
#22. It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.
Tove Jansson
#23. Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know.
Tove Jansson
#24. Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.
Tove Jansson
#25. A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
Tove Jansson
#26. I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!
Tove Jansson
#27. One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.
Tove Jansson
#28. The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
Tove Jansson
#29. But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.
Tove Jansson
#30. You can't depend on people who just let things happen
Tove Jansson
#31. Oh, Anna Aemelin, the only thing you care about is your own conscience. That's what you cherish. You're a charming little liar.
Tove Jansson
#32. I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you ...
Tove Jansson
#33. I thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever.
Tove Lo
#34. My dream was never to become this unattainable star.
Tove Lo
#35. I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.
Tove Lo
#36. I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?
Tove Jansson
#37. Well, things can't get much worse
that's one consolation, the Muskrat groaned. He had hidden himself in a forest of bracken in the bathroom, and had wrapped his head in a handkerchief so that nothing should grow into his ears.
Tove Jansson
#38. All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
Tove Jansson
#39. I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.
Tove Styrke
#40. I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.
Tove Lo
#41. I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.
Tove Lo
#42. My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.
Tove Ditlevsen
#43. Only farmers and summer guests walk on the moss. What they don't know - and it cannot be repeated too often - is that moss is terribly frail. Step on it once and it rises the next time it rains. The second time, it doesn't rise back up. And the third time you step on moss, it dies.
Tove Jansson
#44. You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
Tove Jansson
#45. The Hemulen slid down onto the grass completely exhausted.
"Oh!" he moaned. "There has never been anything but trouble and danger since I came into the Moomin family.
Tove Jansson
#46. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.
Tove Jansson
#47. I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness
Tove Jansson
#48. I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.
Tove Lo
#49. I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.
Tove Styrke
#50. Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea
Tove Jansson
#51. The room had lost its morning light, the glow of expectation and potential. The daylight was now gray, and the new day was already used, a little soiled by mistaken thoughts and makeshift undertakings.
Tove Jansson
#52. All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
Tove Jansson
#53. The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
Tove Lo
#54. My dear child," said Grandmother impatiently, "every human being has to make his own mistakes." She was very tired, and wanted to get home.
Tove Jansson
#55. It can be sad having a friend you've admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.
Tove Jansson
#56. Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.
Tove Jansson
#57. He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.
Tove Jansson
#58. He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary.
Tove Jansson
#59. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.
Tove Jansson
#61. I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star.
Tove Lo
#62. No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else's island when there's no one home. But if they put up a sign, then you do it anyway, because it's a slap in the face
Tove Jansson
#63. Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?'
'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings ...
Tove Jansson
#64. Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.
Tove Jansson
#65. I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.
Tove Jansson
#66. Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related.
Tove Jansson
#67. Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. Hullo. Nice to see you.
Tove Jansson
#68. I think it's important to find somebody who you trust, who has the same vision. If I were to do that myself, and not trust anybody to do it for me or with me, I would have to spend as much time as I have learning to make music on making music videos.
Tove Styrke
#69. Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself.
"I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.
Tove Jansson
#70. It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.
Tove Jansson
#71. You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
Tove Jansson
#72. But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed.
"Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time."
"I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.
Tove Jansson
#73. I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.
Tove Styrke
#74. If words lie face down there's a chance they might change during the night; you may suddenly come to see them with a new eye, perhaps with a rapid flash of insight. It is conceivable.
Tove Jansson
#75. Why do you smile all the time?" he said. "Because I am looking at you," she said
Tove Jansson
#76. For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
Tove Lo
#77. There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.
Tove Jansson
#78. I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.
Tove Ditlevsen
#79. If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
Tove Lo
#80. I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.
Tove Lo
#81. You're an idiot," Snufkin said. "Or still worse, you're a story spoiler.
Tove Jansson
#82. No one can depict desolation who hasn't inhabited desolation and observed it very closely. Things condemned have a terrible beauty.
Tove Jansson
#83. Listen," said the Hemulen. "I was born bald on top and really I get along very well.
Tove Jansson
#84. He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.
Tove Jansson
#85. When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'
Tove Lo
#86. [On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...
Tove Ditlevsen
#87. What is right and what is wrong is a very sensitive matter.
Tove Jansson
#88. She counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.
Tove Jansson
#89. It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!
Tove Lo
#90. Because we're going to stay here a little while and calm down until I've learned your names. Light my pipe, someone!
Tove Jansson
#91. There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.
Tove Jansson
#92. It's nice to have beautiful things that really belong to you.
Tove Jansson
#93. I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.
Tove Lo
#94. It'd be awful if the world exploded, it's so wonderfully splendid
Tove Jansson
#95. Singing gives me a lot of energy.
Tove Lo
#96. I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.
Tove Lo
#97. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realize that they had forgotten
Tove Jansson
#99. Meanwhile the Hemulen was arranging firework set pieces in suitable places. They had Bengal Lights, Blue-Star Rain, Silver Fountains, and Rockets that exploded with stars.
Tove Jansson
#100. The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.
Tove Lo
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