But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. — Hans Christian Andersen

I’ve wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet–these are things I’ve said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy. — Natalie Portman

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. — Tom Robbins

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish–head mermaids! — Mario

I’m so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling–bling, and a pose. — Andre Leon Talley

Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note–kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face. — Maureen Johnson

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. — Hans Christian Andersen

Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers. — Hans Christian Andersen

How agonizing it was,this life of silence and yearning. Yet how very worth it when his eyes found hers. — Marissa Meyer

My life will be the best illustration of all my work. — Hans Christian Andersen

When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now… — Hans Christian Andersen

But shouldn’t all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power? — Hans Christian Andersen

Where are your sons?’ asked the prince. ‘Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!’ said the woman. — Hans Christian Andersen

Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does! — Hans Christian Andersen

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not; — Hans Christian Andersen

Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more. — Hans Christian Andersen

You’re a fine one for tramping around,’ the bandit girl said to Kai. ‘I’d like to know–do you really deserve to have someone run to the end of the world just for your sake? — Hans Christian Andersen

Better than the others. I think he will grow up pretty, — Hans Christian Andersen

Autumn came, and the leaves in the forest turned to orange and gold. Then, as winter approached, the wind caught them as they fell — Hans Christian Andersen

I think I will sit on it a little while longer,’ said the duck, ‘as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing.’ ‘Please yourself,’ said the old duck, and she went away. — Hans Christian Andersen

Pop, pop,’ sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood. — Hans Christian Andersen

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake. — Hans Christian Andersen

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake. — The Little Mermaid

Flew out and bit him in the neck. ‘Let him alone,’ said the mother, ‘he is not doing any harm.’ ‘Yes, but he — Hans Christian Andersen

It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg! — Hans Christian Andersen

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg. — Hans Christian Andersen

Push it myself.’ On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock — Hans Christian Andersen

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock. — Hans Christian Andersen

I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling. — Hans Christian Andersen