Emily

“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face.”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel’s place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“They were in truth great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost;”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales