[He's not entirely wrong. Darkening her own heart a long time ago had been a means of taking back her own control, of keeping her life from being used to bring life to something that has long been dead - being discarded and thought of as worthless was still somehow better than being an acceptable sacrifice for Anastasia because at least then she got to live.

But at the same time, she knows everything that compassion and kindness has done for her, as well as everything that her bitterness and anger had swallowed her into, and she can't really say that her way was better.]

Compassion is the root of love - you felt compassion enough for your true love to try and conquer another world for her. It's always easier to be cruel and much harder to be kind.

[Compassion being a luxury is what makes it so powerful, and that's why almost every fairy tale involving a curse starts with someone who didn't care enough to use it.]

But what do I know? I'm from a world where True Love's Kiss is an actual thing.