She listens to him attentively, her head tilting to the side slightly as Yondu explains that it's like shards of glass. There's a settling of her expression that signified the shift in her perception, an understanding that she had been missing.

"I think everyone has challenges in their lives, but just because everyone has challenges doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt and, um, I'm sorry that people or someone in your past did their best to minimize how you felt. They shouldn't have done that."

She's sort of working through this as she's speaking about it. This was clearly something that was very opposed to her own experience that she was trying to figure out how to word what she wanted to say. Her next words sounded like a conversation she'd had before, though definitely in a different context.

"Everyone should be responsible for their own actions because the only thing we can control in these worlds are ourselves." A thoughtful pause. "But if someone offers you a hand or a shoulder to lean on... Then why not take it?" She smiled a little at him. "I'm stronger than I look, you know. I think I could support ya." She put her right fist in her left hand and flexed her right arm at him in a show that she was rather strong. She relaxed and the smile faded into a more serious expression.

"And maybe I'm not the best person to talk to, but sometimes just having someone who listens can be helpful too. And I'm always willing to lend an ear even if I don't know the best thing to say."