" This isn't a movie. In a movie we would have hugged and been best friends again, now and forever. That's never going to happen. I think I'll be living with this dull pain for the rest of my life. I'll never get back what we used to have.

But maybe that doesn't have to be such a bad thing.

Maybe we can still live with each other, in some way, shape, or form.

"I'm glad you didn't drown with me," I say.

She nods slowly.

"I'm glad you didn't drown," she replies. "

― Camilla Sten , The Lost Village