I spent a lot of time trying to convince myself otherwise. But all that time, I really wanted to meet the people that would be my friends.

[Believe it, she knows all the rationalizations about why it's fine without them, why she doesn't need them and it's really alright, why people shouldn't always be trusted.

But in the end, she had to find some of that faith, and she had to try, and she had to find her precious people.]