"Believe me, that's sometimes the only thing I CAN tell myself to keep going. Lingering tends to make things worse."

Not that Luz always looked at these situations sensibly every time.

"Uh huh! The long-lost ocean world, and I won't lie: it was a beautiful place. They have a lot of problems though, so I hope they can get them sorted a tiny bit if we ever wind up seeing them again."

Luz noticed the puppy dog eyes, and it took all of her self control not to seize the bat, exclaim QUE LINDO and hug fiercely.