[As he listens while Asher lectures him on his own relationship, a subject that Asher knows nothing about, frustration builds inside of him like a fire whose smoke cannot find a chimney through which to escape, until finally, he throws up his hands.]

Because none of that mattered!

[And he claps his hands to his forehead, tilting his head back to groan up at the ceiling.]

Ohhh my god. I didn't care about going to Stanford, I only wanted to keep Oliver safe. Because I care about him - or does that not matter to you? Because it sure as hell doesn't seem to matter to him.