“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

“Because if no one really cares for you at all, do you even exist?”

“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”

“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

“Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

“Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already.”