"Nothin' was never so empty as everything seemed after that," he replied numbly, tightening his arms around her again without even realizing that he was doing so. "I mean, don't got no right to mope or whine or brag or ... anything. I don't got a right to anything. Kept doin' my job, because Ramuh knows I didn't have nothin' else left. Never had anything before that. Was used to havin' nothin'. Had nothin' all my life, Rikku."

This bore repeating.

"And then I had less. Less than nothin'. Why even try to breathe? You just.. do it. An' that's enough. Because it's somethin', at least."