Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.