" Hope refuses to believe that the inevitable is so. What has always been and can’t change is an illusion; if anything is true, it is that change is inevitable, not that the inevitable will not change. But evil caustically replies, Nonsense. It is what it is. You will only be more discouraged and frustrated until you accept reality. "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation