“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
~J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his 21st year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time”