If all that makes you selfish, then I don't know what selfish means anymore. [After the nightmare she'd lived through, she still wants to keep fighting - not because she feels obligated, but because she wants to protect others. He knows the weight of that feeling and the shaking fear entwined with it. He knows how hard it is to stand up straight underneath it. But you do it anyway, because folding in is not an option.]

You're too nice. And too naive. You care too much about everyone else. [But he probably does too. He never asked to grow attached to the people he fights beside, and he never intended to grow attached to the people here too. He hates wondering which line will be severed next.]

But you're stubborn...really damn stubborn. Don't fool yourself into thinking that will be enough. [He thinks of Eren, and he grimaces at the comparison.] I guess...you wouldn't get anywhere if you weren't at least a little stubborn, though.