“Have you ever loved, Rose?”—the sudden question flies in, and her heart tightens in her chest.
“Unfortunately…”
“Why do you say it like that?”
“Because this love brought me only disappointments.”
“It was unreturned?”
“It’s not about that.”
“Then what is it about?”
“When we love a person, we tend to idealize them. We become blind and ready to argue with anyone who says something bad about them. But when the truth surfaces and you find yourself in harsh reality, it hurts too much.
The continuation of the novel "A Dance of Thorns of Roses"