"See, now's the time for stories. Like, right now I should be telling you some great powerful zen story about how adversity was overcome by meditation and mind over matter and tea. But...I never really paid all that much attention to those stories when Splinter told them, so that like...isn't helpful in the slightest here."

He takes a breath.

"You're strong for being able to do this. To cry, I mean. You're strong. Rest of us, we hide from it. No one in my family does it, copes I mean, except April. And she's strong too. Rest of us are just dumb guys. Can't face up to loss. Leo sharpens, Donnie fixes, Raph...he just breaks things. Me, I hide in the closet kitchen I can find. Nothing ever gets resolved.

You though, you're stronger than us. Stronger than a good deal of the people here."