Quotes from Jacob Grimm

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.

Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.