" I asked, “Why were you crying?”
But she didn't answer, because I hadn't said it out loud.
The truth was that I was too grateful for her presence here at all to push my luck by asking questions that might frighten her away. So I babbled to her about my classes and the foibles of Paul and Doritos as alarm clocks, and I was completely flippant and funny and even as she began to laugh, I was dying with wanting. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie (Books of Faerie, #2)