“There is one thing you must learn, never to rely on anyone or anything whatever except the Divine. For if you lean upon anyone for support, that support will break, you may be sure of that.”
“trying to support you with their gaze as if a gaze could ever support anyone!”
“You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.”
“When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.”
“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
“They were there, but they were sitting as silently as everyone else, theireyes fixed on you, trying to supportyou with their gaze, as if a gazecould ever support anyone.”