"The guy in purple? That wasn't your fault, Jan! C'mon, Maybe that human is your shellmate!"
For context, a shellmate is basically a soulmate but based off of the words of wisdom from an oyster that every mermaid and merman gets at a certain age.
I love her dearly, but I can’t live with her for a day without feeling my whole life is wasting away. — Miss Kenton, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro