Cai’er calmly answered: “I can take care of myself.

Thank you, but I could have taken care of that myself.

Independence: "I should be able to fix this on my own.

(Looks like I'll have to take care of this myself.)

My mistakes were my own, and I take responsibility for them.

Did my father think me incapable of doing for myself?

I appreciate your wanting to help, but I’ll be fine.

And after all, hadn’t he said that he would let me go anyways?

I had always managed somehow to get along without that.

against me, of which it may be hard to clear myself, and I

For the rest, I can perfectly manage on my own.

I simply cannot get my mind to shut up about it, Evan.

I have learned that I can survive in a foreign country.

I hate not being to do things by myself, I rarely ask for help.

I thought that I could be successful without anyone’s help.