Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction. - Richard Ford

And though they may both have felt that something had died between them, something they may not even have been aware or until it was gone and disappeared from their lives forever, they must've felt - both of them - that there was something of themselves, something important, that could not live at all in any other way but by their being together, much as they had been before.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.