——Why do children cry? Because they want candy and I don't cry, I don't want candy because I have cavities.
——Your subtext is: Why do they want to stay with me? Because they love me, but you don't want to stay with me, because you don't love me, because there is a wound in your heart.
Her body swayed.
He went on to say, but I am not candy, and you are no longer a child.