"It's something you never stop working towards, I guess, because you meet new people all the time." Secretly she thought it was impossible to become immune to the opinions of others, since there would always be at least one person whose opinion truly mattered. The trick was determining who should be listened to and who should be ignored before it became too late, which was something she'd failed at in the past.
Hannah nodded, although it was almost too idealistic to hope that people could put their differences aside long enough to focus on the bigger picture instead of their own problems. "It would be nice, and it would make a lot more sense than turning on each other... but honestly, I'm not too surprised." There were some good people in the building, she couldn't deny that, but there were also some bad ones too. Xavier didn't seem like he was part of the latter group, but she didn't know him well enough to be sure - and she wasn't making the mistake of assuming again. She also wondered if he was one of those people who didn't understand the bond between people and animals - it wouldn't really surprise her if he was. A lot of people didn't, which was something she didn't understand either. Animals would never betray you or take pleasure in watching you suffer. If a dog was treated with love and kindness its whole life, then there would never be a reason for it to turn on its owner. Animals lashed out in response to cruelty, in self-defense - people on the other hand had the capacity to hurt and even kill for no reason at all.
She gave a little shrug, munching on her sandwich to stall for time. "I know a few people, but most I just know in passing." There was Nick, who she knew from before moving here; Lotte seemed nice, and so did James; then there was Luther and the girl in 703 whose name she still didn't know. Sure, she knew some people, but she didn't have the same ties that others did. "Some people I was friends with moved out - like the girl who lived in 1007, Boyd." Admittedly she still missed her, and often wondered where she was and what she was doing, but all she could really do was hope that she was happy.