It would be, but you can't do it! You can't be that guy, 'cause if you are, then- then no one even cares. You just end up feeling that's what you deserve, and then you get this-this hole inside of you and even a little bit of love tells you it's never gonna be full, and it scares you, but that same little bit of frickin' love tells you if you died, someone would mourn you. You'd be remembered somehow as something more than a waste of space.

So you gotta let 'em in. You gotta get attached... Otherwise you're just gonna die and nobody will even care.

[Wow. There's some honesty. It's half regurgiated from Yondu and half just projecting and talking about his own issues over the top of Tim's but it's no less honest and true, and maybe he can get through to someone like Yondu did for him.

Normally, he wouldn't care about doing that- he doesn't know Tim well enough for that, but... the event knows what's lurking in the back of his head and in his heart. He'd have said this to anyone who gave him reason to. Tim was just the one who did.]