She squeezed his hand as she listened, wanting to talk and reassure him, but remembering that he told her he just needed her to listen. So she was going to sit and listen.
“I need… I need you to be you again,” he told her. “I don’t know how to do this… eggshell crap. And I’m not… I don’t know how to be me,” he admitted, letting go of her hand and turning away a bit.
(Source: rymarshall)