" When you get down to it, people aren't too different from scars. You go through life collecting them. And when you get a new one, you feel it. The pain, at first, is so raw and vibrant that you feel it with every step you take beside them....

The one day, before you even know it, you wake up and just feel a numbness where something else used to be.

But you never forget it's there. Not once. "

― Sam Sykes , Ten Arrows of Iron (The Grave of Empires, #2)