Then... please, I-I don't... understand. Does that mean you decided it didn't matter?

[She pauses, just before she would have touched him.]

Or that it didn't matter enough to speak up? Even... even though you were hurt? O-Or, or is there some other meaning I'm just, that I'm just not getting?

He's... I know there's a lot he wants, and a lot he thinks he doesn't get to have, and... and when he's not panicking and can actually admit that, I think he does want to be friends.

But when it comes to being smart... smart people can be awful, when it comes to feelings. People aren't a battlemap, or a chessboard, or an equation. They're harder.

You didn't hurt me. I hurt me.