Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Mercedes LackeyTime doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.
Mercedes LackeyIt's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.
Mercedes LackeyHe isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
Mercedes Lackey