[ No one's really said that to her before. Everything was definitely difficult for Claire, everyone (who knew the truth of it all) knows that. But Bree lost her father, twenty-years worth of a life she never questioned, and one half of herself all in one fell swoop.

It was difficult for her, too.

Not that he knows quite so much, and she doesn't mean to drag Claire's good name here through the mud like this, so Bree stops, taking a deep breath and letting it out, then looks at him. ]

I think my mother went through something incredibly tragic and I had to choose to put whatever I was feeling aside. Because she put everything she felt for someone aside to protect me, once.