from a book i am yet to write

"But with mist, you don't know you are getting wet.  And then it hits you.  You're soaking."

He said 

" I think that's how it is with missing some people.  You think you're fine, because it's only a little mist right? But there's more mist than you think.  And it all adds up.  And soon it's in your eyes and your hair, and the mist is water, clinging to your skin "