May Be

“I'd started to realize I would never really be happy again. Not the way I had been.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“You must be a very lonely person." All I want, is to be cherished, she thought. And here I am talking gibberish with a selfish man. "You must be very lonely indeed." He touched her hand and smiled again. "You were so lucky," he told her, "you had a mother.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Nightmares had become a science. Someone, a mere human, had taken the time to dream up this satanic howling. And what success! It was the sound of panic itself, mounting and straining towards the extinction they all knew, individually, to be theirs.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Sciona was proof that hope didn't have to mean living to the end of the story.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven