When your best friend died like this, you were supposed to be destroyed.
-- Narrator - Anna (Prologue)

Importance: Khai recognized that his response to Andy’s death was different from the way others were reacting to his death. He came to the conclusion after his aunt asked him if he was not crying because he was not upset, that he had a heart of stone.

If he couldn’t grieve for Andy, that meant he couldn’t grieve at all. And if he couldn’t grieve, the flip side also had to be true. He couldn’t love.
-- Narrator (Prologue)

Importance: Khai decided after Andy’s funeral that he was unable to grieve and to love. For this reason, he believed that he did not need to try to fall in love with a woman. He believed that he would only be punishing her because he could not reciprocate her love.

Since he doesn’t know how to...
-- Cô Nga (Chapter 1)