" Grief was a miserable emotion. A friend once told me the hurt that came with the end of a relationship was painful because it was the death of a dream— the future you’d imagined with a lover, a loved one, a child, or a friend. That loss was its own painful, nearly tangible thing. You had to reimagine your future, perhaps in a different place, with different people, doing different things than you might have first imagined. In my case, it was imagining a future without my best friend— without Mallory. "

― Chloe Neill , Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, #3)