The Complete Fairy Tales

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.

Injustice has parcelled out the world, nor is there equal division of aught save of sorrow.