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Quotation from Fairy Tales (Selection) by Hans Christian Andersen

“when a star fell down a soul mounted up to God.”

Hans Christian Andersen (spoken by Narrator, recalling the grandmother's words)

Fairy Tales (Selection), The Little Match Girl, trans. W. A. Craigie

Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen

The freezing child sees a falling star and remembers what her grandmother, the only person who had loved her, used to tell her.

Citation: "when a star fell down a soul mounted up to God." — Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales (Selection), The Little Match Girl, trans. W. A. Craigie. (id andersen-fairy-tales-q8)

Portrait: Hans Christian Andersen by Thora Hallager 1869, Thora Hallager, Public domain.

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