"Well, it's good to be able to be by yourself, I think." She really did think that, and if Henry said he'd been all right on his own then he had. But she was glad he had friends now too, that they both did.
"Yeah, I don't think those girls were ... unintelligent or anything. They just didn't really care much. And I agree with you, it's not bad to just want to have fun when you're a teenager. I just wanted to find people who think about the world, think about helping other people... Even when I was out of high school I didn't always have good luck finding them."