Everything's Much Too Big Here,' Thought Moominmamma.

One Makes A Trip By Day, But By Night One Sets Out On A Journey.

But He Thought All The Strange Words Were Beautiful, And He Had Never Had A Book Of His Own Before.

...by And By A Change Came: I Started To Muse About The Shape Of My Nose. I Put My Trivial Surroundings Aside And Mused More And More About Myself, And I Found This To Be A Bewitching Occupation. I Stopped Asking And Longed Instead To Speak Of My Thoughts And Feelings. Alas, There Was No One Besides Myself Who Found Me Interesting.

One Can't Be Too Dangerous, If They Like To Eat Pancakes. Especially With Jam On It.

The Lamp Sizzled As It Burned. It Made Everything Seem Close And Safe, A Little Family Circle They All Knew And Trusted. Outside This Circle Lay Everything That Was Strange And Frightening, And The Darkness Seemed To Reach Higher And Higher And Further And Further Away, Right To The End Of The World.