Christine Halgrener

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

“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I can’t become smaller to fit into a crouching love in somebody else’s meager world. I don’t do that anymore. I have calmed down. I have consolidated. I have come through the reckoning that I required.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“I f nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.”
― Pablo Neruda