"People will be assholes to you if they think you'll take it-" he huffed.
"Only if they're pieces of shit people." she huffed back. "A person who isn't full of shit has no incentive or lure to be an asshole towards anyone. Never forget that."
"You really believe that?"
"No. I know it. I also know that if someone believes they are pieces of shit, nothing you do that says you see them as otherwise will ever be accepted as sincere. They need you to believe they are the garbage humans they say they are. They are wholly vested in that...shit. You thinking otherwise is treated as a whole other kind of mutiny. You still see and think...what you want to fucking see and think."