He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune. - Vonda N. McIntyre

She had learned to doubt, rather than simply to question.

The intensity of Melissa’s loyalty troubled Snake. She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self-interest. Perhaps Melissa could not yet think of herself as someone with a right to her own dreams; perhaps so many of her dreams had been taken from her that she no longer dared to have them.

You’d have everyone substitute your fantasies for their own.