Just use people
for what they can give you.’
She hesitated for a moment and then she straightened her shoulders. ‘I
can’t do that. No matter what happens in life, you can’t change
the person you are, can you? All my life I’ve wanted to be loved the way
I am. All my life I struggled to please people—my teachers, my father—
but it never worked. I’ve just disappointed people. They get impatient
and frustrated with me. Do you want to know something funny?’
Hating the thought that they’d all made her life so unhappy and
finding the whole conversation just about as far from amusing as it was
possible to get, William frowned. ‘What?‘You think you’re such a hard, bad person but you’re the first and only
person who has ever taken the time to go through numbers with me
without getting im
