Dylan's Miserable Little Life

They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore. He looked at her, and though how much love she had for him, and suddenly it seemed strangely painful and burdensome to be so loved…He had felt that she was his only hope, his only way out; he had thought he could lay down a part of his suffering, at least, but now, when her whole heart turned towards him, he was suddenly conscious that his unhappiness was immeasurably greater than before.