Another Excerpt from Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco

Charlotte turned to her. "Alice, one thing I've noticed is that people hate being criticized. Everyone hates that. It's one of the great truths of human nature - I think it's why my parents got divorced."
Alice looked implicated. Her eyes began to water slightly.
"I'm sorry," Charlotte added, apparently sincerely. "It's just that you're so terrific - it makes me sick to think that you might get in that terrible situation again where everyone hated you-"
"Hated me?"
"You're wonderful," Charlotte said, sitting next to her. "Maybe, in physical terms, I'm a little cuter than you, but you should be much more popular than I am... It'd be such a shame if what happened in college repeated itself."