The stork walking about on his long red legs chattered in the Egyptian language, which he had learnt from his mother. The corn-fields and meadows wer… - Hans Christian Andersen

language, which he had learnt from his mother. The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst

And now it worked much more evil than before; for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world, and when they got into people’s eyes, there they stayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for that which was evil. This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed. Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.

No death is sweeter than this, and no rose redder than the blood that flows.

Everyone's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.