Mbilire

“There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.”
― bell hooks

“Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.”
― Dorothy McFalls, The Huntress

“Love isn’t blind… It just involves a lot of looking the other way”
― Ben Mitchell