Harry Potter and the Jade Heart
Chapter 19
"Dead Inside"

"Tell me, Harry, what do you think is worse: feeling alone when you're not, being alone and not knowing, or knowing you're alone and not caring?"

"If someone is alone and doesn't care, then they're dead inside."

"But when you're alone, don't you feel dead inside?"

"I have all these people around me. I still have friends. But at this moment, knowing that you feel like I failed you...I've never felt more dead inside in my life."

"So what do you have to live for?"

"I may feel dead inside, but I'm not. I know that I didn't fail you, and if I have to, I will spend the rest of my life trying to convince you of that."

"That might not be much longer."

"Then so be it."