“What a fool Isabelle is,” many people would say. “What an idiot to throw her bracelet away on a lost cause.” Never listen to such small-souled folk. The skin-and-bones dog who shows up at your door. The broken-winged bird you nurse back to health. The kitten you find crying at the side of the road. You think you’re saving them, don’t you? Ah, child. Can’t you see? They’re saving you.
