"You aren't ever going to measure up, because what you're trying to measure up to doesn't exist outside your mind and never really has. You'll learn to live with it." It was blunt, but it wasn't unkind.

Bruce was, in spite of everything said about him and how he operated and even the sheer hypocrisy of what he was saying (the standards he set for himself were beyond grueling) coming from him, a strongly, deeply, innately, compassionate man.

"And I'll keep loving you. You know that."