[Rorschach was taken aback when she said she thought what he did was sad. It was the bare minimum of human connection but it still left him off-balance. He was so used to his self-imposed solitude and the lack of interaction with other people that the idea of anyone feeling anything other than anger, fright, or hatred towards him was a completely foreign concept. His body language reflected that confusion, the way he put his hands in his pockets only to take them back out again, fidgety in a situation he didn't fully understand.

As a result of his puzzlement, he struggled with a reply, hard-pressed to put what he was feeling into words. But he tried.]

Not sad. Person I was before was weak. Flawed. Fallible. Better this way now. Able to protect without distractions or confusion. Morals and principles are much clearer. See things without vision clouded by doubt.