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" At first, you’ll want the hurt to go away, to find some way to cut the feelings out of yourself. Then, as time passes, you’ll find yourself clinging to that pain. Somehow, your heart believes that to stop feeling hurt is a betrayal. That it calls into question your own faith in your commitment to the passion you had. “Life is clever, Jonathan. One day you wake up and realize it doesn’t hurt, yet there was never any betrayal. It’s not that your emotions changed, but that you’re no longer the person who felt those things in the first place. That person is in the past, and his feelings were real, but you are no longer him. “That person will have become a story you tell yourself to remember who you thought you were.” She’d "
― T. Ellery Hodges , The Never Hero (Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs, #1)