"The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise."

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I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

— Shannon Hale