" Michael doesn't flinch. 'You can't know,' he says quietly, 'how much you truly love something until it's gone.'

'That's not fair,' I say as I tremble.

'No one said it would be. He tests you, Benji, and he tests Calliel for a supremely simple reason. You are tested because if you aren't, how could you know what you believe in?' "

― T.J. Klune , Into This River I Drown