I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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

Hans Christian AnderseN

Here is the original quote from the story, written in 1872. I found a PDF here.

When the sisters rose, arm-in-arm, through the water in this way,
their youngest sister would stand quite alone, looking after them,
ready to cry, only that the mermaids have no tears, and therefore
they suffer more. “Oh, were I but fifteen years old,” said she: “I
know that I shall love the world up there, and all the people who
live in it.” At last she reached her fifteenth year. “Well, now, you
are grown up,” said the old dowager, her grandmother; “so you
must let me adorn you like your other sisters;” and she placed a
wreath of white lilies in her hair, and every flower leaf was half a
pearl. Then the old lady ordered eight great oysters to attach
themselves to the tail of the princess to show her high rank.

Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid