POV: Another book character says "I don't want your pity," after they've told you literally the most traumatic backstory you've ever heard.
Oh! You don't want basic compassion and sympathy humans express when told bad news? What should we do then, laugh or not react at all.
Then, the other character responds, "I don't pity you," like it's not exactly what they were just doing.
I'm sick of authors writing characters detesting simple, earnest empathy as 'strong', and making it seem like feeling and understanding someone's pain is a bad thing, or 'pity' as they so zealously put it. That's another to the long list of cliches.