Status Updates From When Love is Blind (Warrend...

He gazed at her with those blank, yet strangely attractive eyes, as though by sheer will-power he would somehow pierce the terrible barrier between him and her. (Quote from ARC, 62%)

And in a final moment of irresistible self-knowledge she realized that she loved him. (…) It was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to her – and the most appaling. It comprised all her happiness – and equally it threatened its very foundations. He meant everything to her and, by the bargain she had just struck, he must mean nothing. (Quote from ARC, 55%)

Really interesting, even from the historical perspective.

"I don't want to play now—for anyone but myself. Imagine being led to the piano, fumbling a little until one found one's bearings on the keyboard." He gave an exclamation of sheer disgust. "I'd rather never play again than make such an exhibition of myself!"
"Stop being so self-pitying and arrogant," said Antoinette, and utter silence fell in the room.

First,of hopefully more,verbal smackdown by heroine