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“Please, don't tell me that everything will be all right." He holds up a hand as she starts to speak. "Because nothing is all right. Nothing in this entire world is all right.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“He had stayed. And fought for me.
Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction , even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or starved. I couldn’t leave him to his own dark thoughts, his own guilt. He’d shouldered them alone long enough.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just...in a different way.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“I am grateful you're alive", he said. "I am grateful that you're beside me. I am grateful that you're eating."
She rested her head on his shoulder.
"You're better that waffles, Matthias Helvar."
A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips.
"Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom