I stayed at Charles Dickens’s house and somehow became the problem in his autobiography, which is honestly the most British thing anyone has ever done. by Hans Christian Andersen

I’m just here to say both of you are dramatic in different fonts.

Say what you want, but if I enter a room, the room becomes literature, and that is simply a burden I carry beautifully.

Hans, you did not stay here, you installed yourself like a moral lesson with luggage.

Jenny, you can’t call us dramatic when Hans treated a guest room like a royal court and a friendship like a five-act tragedy.

And yet you remembered every minute of it, which is a very long way of saying I was unforgettable.