Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

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.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

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

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.