“Trust me, it's the weight of someone else's expectation that's the hardest to lose.”

“It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.”

“I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.”

“Yes. I've sepnt twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.”

“That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.”

“It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.”