I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that
----Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess