[Well damn. She'd meant that as a something of a reality check, but she didn't want to make the poor guy feel even worse about this.]

Whoa! You don't have to get so down about it... Look, all I'm trying to say is that we're already here, so we should try and help, yeah?

Let's just focus on what we can do for now. We can take this one step at a time and lean on each other when we need to.