A Paragraph Which Moved Me

From Jane Green's Mr Maybe:

And later that night, while I'm lying in bed crying, because I never realised how much it would hurt to cause that much pain to someone who loves you, it suddenly strikes me that the reason Ed didn't say anything, at all, all evening, was because he was holding back the tears.

- after the protagonist Libby spends a silent evening with her soon-to-be-ex-fiance Ed