Uhm... you can... not answer or whatever, but I was wonderin'...

[Actually Vriska was wondering, but he had made a deal with her - get an answer and she'd drop the stupid "doormat" nickname.

But it had made him curious about it as well.]

When your heart shattered, how come you didn't just--...

[He didn't want to say "die" because that was half the reason she was in the state she was currently.]

I mean. How'd you survive somethin' like that?