The beginning of Thumbelina cracks me up!!!
Title for the bittersweet Hans Christian Anderson short story “The Little Match Girl” that I made completely out of matches.
The boy was terror stricken. He tried to say his prayers, but all he could remember was his multiplication tables.
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…and she reeled in the dance herself, gliding as the swallow glides when it is being chased, while all cried out in admiration of her, for she had never danced so splendidly. It was as if sharp knives cut into her feet, though she never felt them; they cut more painfully into her heart.”
— The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
— The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
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“But of the little dancer nothing remained but the tinsel rose, which was burnt black as cinder.” ~Hans Christian Anderson
-The Little Mermaid-
“When you have reached your fifteenth year,” said the grand-mother, “you will have permission to rise up out of the sea, to sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships are sailing by”
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