Saying I'm strange for saying you deserve to be happy is like saying I'm strange for saying you're allowed to breathe.

[ That's still a little deadpan, since it's more or less an automatic retort, but.. ]

.. The two of us.. we're friends, right? You've been putting up with me and talking to me all this time already, and I know you aren't a bad person at all. So of course I can at least say something like that for sure.