At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the oc… - Astrid Lindgren
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the oc…
- Astrid Lindgren
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life. - Astrid Lindgren
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful. - Astrid Lindgren
Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rare… - Astrid Lindgren
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rare…
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. - Astrid Lindgren
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me. - Astrid Lindgren
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. - Astrid Lindgren
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today. - Astrid Lindgren
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it. - Astrid Lindgren
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
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