Quote from Hans Christian Anderson

“But the Story never dies.  And more than a whole year went by, and he longed—oh, so very much!—for the Story.”
“The Will-o’-the-Wisp is in the Town,” says the Moor Woman

Quote from Hans Christian Andersen

“A sea maid has no immortal soul, and can never gain one, except she win the love of a mortal.  Her eternal existence depends upon the power of another.”
The Little Sea Maid

Paper Weight

For the third time in my life, I have found myself thinking, “I have too many books.” It’s a thought that only ever creeps up when I have to pack them all up and move them. Books and paper, when they fill a box, weight a ton! After four or five of those, even the tough guys from the karate school start complaining about it.
 
The problem, of course, is that when I am not moving, I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as too many books. I don’t have the space for it right now, but one day I want a room I can devote entirely to a personal library.
 
I want shelves for the Shakespeare pocket books that have gathered through personal interest or class requirement. I want an entire case, small and low to the ground, to hold the result of my near-epic and ultimately failed attempt to get the entire Dragonlance series. I want a shelf for my true crime collection, preferably not near my very small romance novel selection, because the juxtaposition of that would be odd. I want a child’s shelf for the favourites I haven’t been able to part with (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Rebel Witch, The House With the Clock in Its Walls) and for the new ones gathered for nieces and nephews I expect in the future.
 
I want a whole world bound and framed by different covers. One as mixed up and random as my interests appear to be, and as endless as my enthusiasm for words on a page.

But once I have it, I never, ever, want to have to move it.

Quote from Hans Christian Anderson

“R-r-atch! how it sputtered and burned! It was a warm bright flame, like a little candle when she held her hands over it; it was a wonderful little light!  It really seemed to the little girl as if she sat before a great polished stove, with bright brass feet and a brass cover.  How the fire burned! how comfortable it was! but the little flame went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the burned match in her hand.”
—  The Little Match Girl

Quote from Hans Christian Anderson

“Then suddenly the door flew open, and the draught of air caught the dancer, and she flew like a sylph just into the stove to the Tin Soldier, and flashed up in a flame, and she was gone.”
The Hardy Tin Soldier

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House, M.D. (Season One)

Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant, but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.

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Quote from Hans Christian Andersen

“He brought out the tinder-box and the candle-end; but as soon as he struck fire and the sparks rose up from the flint, the door flew open, and the dog who had the eyes as big as a couple of tea-cups, and whom he had seen in the tree, stood before him, and said,

‘What are my lord’s commands?’”
The Tinder-box