" A nod of acknowledgment. “It doesn’t go away. Ever. And it shouldn’t. We should always miss certain people who’ve been in our lives. But there’ll be islands, more and more of them.” “Islands?” “That’s the way I thought of it. Islands—of times when you’re content, you don’t think about the loss. Now it’s like your world’s underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water’ll be there always but you’ll find dry land again. That helped me get through it. A friend told me that. "

― Jeffery Deaver , Solitude Creek (Kathryn Dance, #4)