" Kitty sat down beside him. 'Do you remember the last time we were trudging around a mountain?'
Nate snorted. 'God, that feels so long ago.'
She passed him a bottle of water. 'I kind of hated you then.'
'Kind of? Darling, with the amount of vitriol you spat my way it's a wonder I ever liked you at all.' He reached out and brushed sweaty hair away from her eyes. "Then again, perhaps not. I would have loved you either way. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A History of Madness (The Outlands Pentalogy #2)