“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.”
Source: The Exiled Queen
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