“It was hard to trust in happiness, coming from another person, but . . . there was so much of it, around him.”
“It was so strange how someone could love another person so much and so well but still not understand what made her happy.”
“..hard to trust that after so much had been taken, so much could still be received.”
“Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.”
“Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.”
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.”