Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. (Jennifer Donnelly)

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly

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