Raising my hope for your teachings and then shooting me down is just heartless. You're breaking my heart here.

[At least he has enough tact not to call her out on it. Also the fact the sarcasm falls off a bit into genuine sentiment. Sound the alarms.] Pssh, it's not your responsibility to protect random assholes from optimistic morons. I wouldn't ask that from you.

Not to mention I think they'd be drawn to your shining personality. I'd rather not have a magnet around, sorry. [Wait, wait, false alarm, snark is back, we're safe.]