Aimee

“Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only received 'the best education in the world,' know nothing worth attending to.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion