Persephone does not point out that that was an admission, in a roundabout sort of way. She just sighs.

"Living hurts. Things happen that hurt you. You can't just not do something on the off chance it will hurt you."

Persephone gestures out with a wide vague sweep of the world, "Beings have the ability to hurt you. Cutting yourself off from every being is not helpful, you just end up alone and unwilling to trust. I have a hard time with--with some romantic actions, because s-someone treated me poorly in the past." She tries desperately to ignore how she stumbled on that, "But cutting myself off from the experience, from wanting to kiss and touch and date and all of that--it'd be just as awful as being hurt again. I want those things, even though I know it could all turn out badly. I have to go slow and I have to put a lot of trust into them, but I do it."

"Don't let the hurt, the possibility of it, stop you, is what I'm saying, I guess. It will hurt when he dies. If he dies. But it still hurts to see him die, whether you love him in that way or not. And everyone comes back here. We're tied to the train. It will hurt, but he will continue to come back. And maybe you could try to talk him into being a little less reckless?"