I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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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