The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.