“That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.”
“The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.”
“It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.”
“you cannot please everyone, so why please anyone at all?”
“Accept that you’ll never please everyone and you’re on your way to pleasing the right ones.”
“Please what? the teacher thinks. Please break the law? Please put myself and the school at risk? But, no, that's not it at all. What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.”