Heartless

by Marissa Meyer

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”

everyone would be willing to pretend it away rather than upset their pleasant lives.

“Fascinating, isn’t it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.

“These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,” he said, vanishing up to his neck. “They happen only in nightmares.”

“But hoping,” he said, “is how the impossible can be possible after all.”