“Would he love her or kill her?”

“Love only the people who deserve you.”

“And with one look, he cracked me open like a safe and stole everything inside.”

“If there's black tar in that well, you won't find fresh flowers when you drain it”

“At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.”

“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”

“Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her. ”