He doesn’t have the words, so he does practical things instead.

“I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is,…”

“His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They…”

“I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement …”

“He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.”