"I'm pretty sure everywhere's better if you have money. And I know what it's like to have to fend for yourself - different situation, but...where I come from, there was a disease that wiped out most people. All of a sudden there weren't shops or bakers or anything like that, no one to grow food or butcher it or sell it. Spent plenty of nights cold and hungry and sleeping under a tree."

It sucks.

"America's not as great as people make it out to be. But hey...I don't know how long Thorne's going to be keeping people down here, but I'll bring you some more food next time I come down, too. I know it's not much, but...I remember what a big deal the little stuff meant to me, when I was in a rough place."

The little comforts suddenly became very big comforts. And the gnawing loneliness, the desperation for affection and attention...Nadine understands it. She's felt it herself, plenty of times.