people
- You are not very happy, are you? she said.
- What?
- Alone. An orphan. Few friends. Only prospects. Which are rarely more lasting than yellow butterflies in September.
- I'm plenty happy. And I've got all the friends I care to have.
- Meaning you care to have - what, three? And one of those is a horse.
- People. They'll let you down.
(excerpt from Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons)