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“I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Stop being cruel."
"The world is cruel. This world is, anyway. Tell me, Your Ladyship, what's it like in your fairy-tale land?"
She snatched the shilling from his hand. As he looked on in irritation, she stood, cocked her arm, and winged the coin with all her strength.
He pushed to his feet. "You just tossed away a perfectly good shilling. I can't imagine a better example of your pampered existence. That's a day's wages for a workingman."
"You have millions of shillings, as you're so fond of telling everyone."
"Yes, but I never forget that I came from far less. I couldn't forget that, even if I tried."
"I have tried to forget. To forget where I came from, to deny the past. You don't know how I've tried." Her voice crumbled at the edges. "I may not have known poverty, but that doesn't mean I haven't known pain."
Gabe pushed a hand through his hair. He recognized the ring of truth in her voice. She was being honest, and he was being an ass.
Her character was finally coming into focus. He didn't know who or what had hurt her, but the blade had sunk deep. The world didn't hold enough kittens to fill that wound- but that hadn't stopped her from trying.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“I don't want to see you ever again."
He flinched the tiniest bit, but a slight smile still played on his lips. "So the engagement is off? I'd say it was a pleasure but..."
"It wasn't." Daisy finished his sentence.
A shadow of sorrow flickered across his face so quickly she wondered if she'd seen it. "See you in another ten years." His softened tone, unwanted and unexpected, rippled gently over her senses like a warm summer breeze.
Disconcerted by the flare of heat that flooded her skin, she stumbled over her final words. "That will be too soon.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“All relationships are this way. Whether it’s the relationship to a place, a person, a job, or some personal endeavor - our old wounds will arise for revisiting once we stay put. It’s what we do next that matters.”
― Vanessa Osage, Can't Stop the Sunrise: Adventures in Healing, Confronting Corruption & the Journey to Institutional Reform

“Don't cry, little girl," he says. "It was a long time ago."
"Yes, but time means nothing to heartbreak.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes