"You were being subtle," she points out, as if this is a terrible flaw of his that she is generously tolerating. "You should probably give up on that around me, I just get confused."

Well.

She rolls her toes against his thigh, thinking, fidgety, while she writes in 'decimated'. "The golden rule is 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you', which mostly I think means 'don't be a fuckhead'. Words to live by."