The Girl who Loved the Wind Quotes

“Though her father seeks to protect her from all unpleasant things, a young princess is intrigued by the voice of the wind that tells her of worlds beyond the palace walls.”

“The story is about a young girl who is so sheltered that she does not experience life, neither the good nor the bad, and of how the wind helps her to escape her stagnat existence.”

“Determined to protect his beloved only child, a wealthy merchant named Danina builds a splendid palace for her by the sea.”

“An original fairy tale, this story is about a girl whose overprotective father tries to keep her from all things wicked, unhappy, trying, or real.”

“Here she is protected from all danger, surrounded by beauty, and tended by servants who are always pleasant.”

“Though her father seeks to protect her from all unpleasant things, a young princess is intrigued by the voice of the wind that tells her of worlds beyond the palace walls.”

“How peculiar,′ said Danina. ‘Here you merely rustle the trees and play with the leaves and calm the birds in their nests.’ ‘I am not always kind,’ said the wind again. ‘Everyone here is always kind. Everyone here is always happy.”

“The wind,′ said Danina, her eyes bright with memory. ‘He sang me his song.’ ‘The wind does not sing,’ said her father. ‘Only men and birds sing.’ ‘This was no bird,’ said his daughter.”

“i knew it was you,′ said Danina.‘But not one believed me.’ And the wind danced around the garden and made the flowers bow. He caressed the birds in the trees, and played gently with the feathers on their wings.”

“In an effort to protect his child, Danina is encased in a beautiful, gilded castle where she is protected from everything. Everything, but the wind.”

“But one day, the wind - who is “not always kind” - finds Danina, and sings to her of the wide world beyond the palace walls, where the days are sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but always different...”

“Once many years ago in a country far to the east there lived a wealthy merchant. He was a widower and had an only daughter named Danina. She was dainty and beautiful, and he loved her more than the loved all of his treasures.”

“Danina’s wealthy father tries to protect her from all hurtful things, but he cannot stop the voice of the wind. Its song is sometimes sad and harsh, sometimes sweet -- just like life itself.”

“An original fairy tale, this story is about a girl whose overprotective father tries to keep her from all things wicked, unhappy, trying, or real.”

“Though her father seeks to protect her from all unpleasant things, a young princess is intrigued by the voice of the wind that tells her of worlds beyond the palace walls.”

“The wind,′ said Danina. ‘The wind doesn’t talk,’ said her father. ‘He called himself the wind,’ she replied. But her father did not understand. And so when a passing fisherman found Danina’s scarf far out at sea and returned it to the merchant’s house, he was rewarded with a beating,”

“When Danina was still an infant, her father brought her to a great house which he had built on the shore of the sea. On three sides of the house rose three huge walls. And on the fourth side was the sea itself.”

“Yet one spring day, as Danina stood by her window gazing at the sea, a breeze blew sat across the waves. It shipped her hair about her face. It blew in the corners of her room.”

“A lonely girl whose father has protected her from the sadness and pain of the world by confining her to a magnificent palace, learns about reality from the wind.”