Two sculpted hands reach toward each other with a small warm glow between their fingertips against a dark blue background.

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Andie

If somebody doesn’t believe in me, I can’t believe in them.

— Pretty in Pink  ·  1986

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker sets out a condition of mutual trust: their faith in another person depends on that person having faith in them. It reads as a boundary about self-respect, refusing to give confidence to anyone who withholds it, while presenting belief as something exchanged rather than freely handed out.

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