Oh come off it,

[He grumbles right against his chest, shaking his head just enough to be felt.]

"Years-dead old corpse" or not, you're nice to me. Consider, for a second, that that's a real novel concept to me, and you tell me how much I don't give a fuck what anybody thinks of me "taking a liking" to you.

[Does... he even realize how incriminating all of these words he's saying are. No, probably not.]