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“Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.”
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily of New Moon

“Then your tail will divide and shrink until it becomes what the people on earth call a pair of shapely legs. But it will hurt; it will feel as if a sharp sword slashed through you. Everyone who sees you will say that you are the most graceful human being they have ever laid eyes on, for you will keep your gliding movement and no dancer will be able to tread as lightly as you. But 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.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story— how many parts of it are never told— how much more really happened than there is in the book one holds in one’s hand and pores over.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess