[Quietly:] Oh, it's very easy to not care. As easy as falling.

[It's easier to not care when everyone has turned against you. It's the only way to save your sanity, Loki thinks. It's so much easier to hate, and to be feared, and not worry at all about anyone else. Not caring is freedom from so many things, and top do so many things.

It's permission to stop feeling pain and start inflicting it instead.]