"At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon."

— F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise.

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"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more."

— Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid.

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