Dawn

“I released a breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding. “I’ve cracked, that’s all there is to it. Living with my parents—even for just a couple days—has finally driven me insane.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“His mind raced. Is that what the Höhlendrache sounded like? He couldn’t remember, but they definitely did have scales and there had been at least one caged in the adit near Galena. Seeing the scattered human remains of what that one had dined on had made his stomach turn. Maybe one of those monsters at that cabin outside Galena, coming to skin you toes to nose”
― Ann Charles, Hip Deep in Bad Company

“When she awoke he took her home, and as they went she knew that she had been mistaken. She would not die. Her heart was not even broken. She had suffered horribly; she would suffer more; but eventually the pain must wear out. Into her head crept a few lines of an old opera: "Hearts do not break, they sting and ache, For old love's sake, but do not die, As witnesseth the living I.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“Nobody warns you that life continues to be complicated after you’ve Done the Right Thing. That there is no reward, beyond some intangible sense of moral fortitude”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted