This quote comes from Billy’s pregnant girlfriend Sharon during a section Rent Boy narrates that takes place during Billy’s funeral. Sharon’s words sound very similar to the words of an anonymous woman in a pub that Second Prize and Tommy witnessed being beaten by her boyfriend; though her boyfriend beat her, the woman nevertheless continued to stand by him. Sharon also suffered domestic abuse from Billy, but she remained loyal to him and thought he might get better. Rent Boy’s feelings toward Sharon alternate between attraction and disgust. Possibly, he sees some of himself in her, and so his ambivalent…