Cupio Volare

Today our houses unite to remember a great man.

We will always remember the lesson you taught us - bad actions don’t make a bad man

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times 

“If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.”

— Alan Rickman: February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016

Princess Leia who was captured and forced to witness the destruction of her home planet and murder of her adopted family

Princess Leia who was supposed to be rescued by Luke and wound up taking his gun and shooting at the stormtroopers herself

Princess Leia who personally rescued her boyfriend from frozen carbonite

Princess Leia who killed Jabba the Hut

Princess Leia who befriended the Ewoks

Princess Leia who later learns she’s the biological daughter of the man who destroyed her home planet and killed her family

Princess Leia who rebuilt her own family only for her son to turn to the dark side and her husband and brother to desert her

Princess Leia who founded the Resistance 

Princess Leia who began rebuilding her relationship with her husband only for their son to kill him

Princess Leia who has never cried,complained or dwelled on any of these things

Princess Leia who has never been tempted by the dark side, not even once

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