The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, #2)

by Chris Colfer

The flower never mocked him for the clothes he wore like others had in his past. The flower never judged him for wanting the most out of life. The flower never used him for political gain. The flower never condemned him for the mistakes he made years before. The flower was only capable of doing one thing: sharing its beauty.

She couldn’t believe something so small and inferior could be so important… so protected… or so loved. It ignited a fire inside of her.

“Forgiveness is what we all need to forget the past, even if we don’t deserve to.”

“I am not a tragic case of the world; I am the world—cruel, unfair, and not a fairy tale. People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them. And one day when your bright-eyed and bushy-tailed view of life gets its first taste of reality, when bitterness and anger first run through your veins, you’ll discover that you are just like me—and it’ll scare you to death.”