"I know," she said, with a patience she didn't really feel, but dammit she could not lose her temper at him right here and now. "I know. I'm just saying, that if you focus all your life so much on one or two people, that you can't think, don't think, of the rest of your friends when they go away..."

Ino shrugged. "It's... depressing. Not just for you, for the people you leave behind, who thought they mattered, and then it turns out they do and yet not enough because they couldn't help pick up the pieces. Do you see what I'm saying? I'm not insulting you."