Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.
No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!
False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.
He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.