"It'll be like that... for a while," said Garnet, her gaze drifting away as she turned her back to the wall. She remembered too well, the day her mother was killed. How it had felt, sitting beside her lifeless body, knowing she would never stir again. It was a profoundly different that simply knowing that you would never see someone again.

"but don't ever think that there is any way you 'should' or should not feel. And don't let anyone else try to tell you otherwise. Your feelings are yours, whatever they be."