Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.
- from Matched by Ally Condie

It turned out you could bear things just until there was hope of reprieval. In horror, he realized that this actually made things worse, for now he had hope for something better. And hope was a terrible thing because it crushed the necessity of bearing the worst. And once the necessity was gone, so was the steely ability to do so.

- from Very Rich by Polly Horvath