You always make things sound so easy. 'Get close to people.' 'If they don't react well when you do, forget them.'
[sighing, he's not mad a her, just... generally miserable.] This is why I promised myself I'd never be with anyone like that until I was human. At least then I'd -- [he doesn't even know. Be able to handle it? Know that, at least, it wasn't about his skin?]