Relationships

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

“If someone refuses to accept what’s plainly obvious, it’s not easy to find an argument that will make him change his mind. [2] This isn’t due to his strength, nor to the weakness of his would-be instructor, but once someone turns to stone because he’s cornered, how can one hope to get through to him with rational argument?

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thi

You can’t help what you feel, Moira once said, but you can help how you behave.