"You really don't get it, huh? Listen, that's what's good about you. I like that weakness of yours.
You're self-loathing and you'll never be able to like yourself, and you know it. But you still struggled on, wanting to become someone even slightly better than before.
Awkward people like that aren't half bad, if you ask me. I like people that move forward for their own sake, regardless of how it turns out."