She believed that was when you truly learned someone’s character—after they’d been broken. When they lost someone they’d loved, and everything they’d known was destroyed. When they’d been brought so low, they might never rise again. And when they do rise, then whatever reason they find to keep going, to claw their way up, to crawl to their feet—she believed that reason would reveal who they truly were. She said that she didn’t know who you truly were.”
