[ No one's ever asked that before, and it takes some pretty serious reflection for Rey to decide. She's never thought about why she feels that way—she just does. Maz Kanata said it was because the Light was always with her—at least, that's what she took it to mean now, in this context. But Rey ... ]

I guess because ... I've met bad people. The people on Jakku aren't bad people; they were only doing what they needed to do in order to survive, and I was one of them. When that's all you see, you have to hope that somewhere out there, where people don't need to scrape by, things are better than that.