“If this is the real you, whoever told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you worse advice.” - Claire from Going Under.”
“But it was even worse when you knew at that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn’t even budge.”
“Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn’t even comfort yourself?”
“She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing”
“Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...”
“You're going to have to make your own fortune. You've been given a lot of challenge. No one is going to help you or save you. You're going to have to do it yourself.”