When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. - Mitch Albom

and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you’re using it to wrap a box. But when you’re clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it’s something else entirely.