" If a tear or two falls, so what? Grief is an endless chasm. As time passes, you can learn to skirt around it, but it’s always there. It never truly lessens, never truly dissipates. It can only be tolerated. After all, everything has a price. Grief is the price for love and, much as I might deny it, I know full well what a goddamn good deal it really is. "

― C.M. Stunich , Vile Bastards (Scarlett Force, #3)