"You don't have to tell me. It's stupid to live any other way. If you don't live for yourself, you'll just get other people caught up in your own problems."

Even after everything, she still believes that. She doesn't know how to strike the balance between these feelings she holds so strongly, and the way she knows she wants to use her magic. Between the person she became, and the person who promised Mami she'd live to atone for her sins. But she knows she can't leave it behind.

"My friends don't think like that." Friends, plural. Not just Madoka. "That's why I can't just leave 'em alone."