Sharon

“She wanted to kiss the hurt away, but knew from her own life that it would always be there. The sadness would remain, but it would exist next to new, buoyant memories. He had come through his own fiery trial as she had hers, not unscathed, but forged into something altogether different and stronger.”
― Sharon Kay, Wicked Wind

“And you kept fighting even after you were knocked down. Goddamn it, you dragged your ass off the ground and you kept fighting." — John Matthew, LOVER MINE”
― J R Ward

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
― Judy Garland

“I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't."

"That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal