" The thing to know is, when that happens, I will not be gone. None of us who are loved and truly known ever disappear. I am a part of you, just as my parents, my grandparents, and your grandfather are a part of me. I carry them with me.” She touches her fist to her heart. “Here. Always. Exponential.” Exponential. One plus one, so much more than two. Then I am in her arms, and she is rocking me, and the grief I’ve been holding floods out of me and into her, where she releases it like fairy dust into the air until all that’s left is love. 11 Walton steps off the boat, the dive bag on his shoulder. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , The Marriage Test