...

"Man, do I know how that feels," he says, very quietly. It feels a little like a gunshot in a space this quiet. "I first felt that when I was younger than you are."

...

"You feel real tired sometimes, huh? More tired than you ever thought someone could be."

There are words on his tongue to follow that he doesn't quite let out: and it's not that you want to die, really, but you wish you could just stop.