Rachel

“I don’t know how to do temporary.” “Then don’t. Believe it’s permanent. Either it will be or it won’t.” Claire sucked in a small, deep breath, like just before a shot at the doctor’s office. “That will hurt.” “Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know,” Sydney said. “But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“I think of Cardan tied to a chair to cheer myself.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“She was blond, slim, and pouty, which would have given me three good reasons to dislike her even if she’d been a sweet lass who spent her free time tending sick hedgehogs.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull