A smile flickers on her face. Guilty as charged, but she listens.

"Not saying it was one way or the other," she replies, finally, "but people like that fall for their own bullshit long before they fall for anyone else's. They fall deep, real deeply in love with their own legends, and they always blame someone else when it goes to shit, and they leave a lot of people agonizing over things that were never in their control."