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“I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
― Brothers Grimm

“My mother, she killed me,
My father, he ate me,
My sister Marlene,
Gathered all my bones,
Tied them in a silken scarf,
Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.”
― Brothers Grimm, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

“Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.”
― Grim

“The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.”
― Jacob Grimm, Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

“One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.”
― Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

“You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“A good friend doesn't let you do stupid things .... alone.”
― Grimm

“Only preserve the love of God in thy heart, and all will go well with thee.”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)" (2012)
Edgar Waltz: You may think I'm a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society would survive without order. Free thought is not free. There's no such thing as revolution. The oppressed always become the oppressors and the cycle repeats itself over and over. The only way to win is to stay out of the cycle. You don't understand a word that I've been saying.
Rosalee Calvert: I'm sorry. I wasn't listening.”
― Grimm

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
― Warsan Shire

“Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.”
― Rupi Kaur

“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
― James Joyce

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“First we feel. Then we fall.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“You can still die when the sun is shining.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Let my country die for me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“As you are now so once were we.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
― Francois Rabelais

“the wise may be instructed by a fool”
― Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel