A Tale Dark and Grimm

by Adam Gidwitz

For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage.

“there is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have.