Noah Coad

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
― Mae West

“When the boy in our story then inadvertently dislodges one hair that falls into the spring, and it turns to gold, we could say he learns these things: that sexual energy is good; that the hunting instinct, which mammals possess without shame, is good; that animal heat, fierceness, and passionate spontaneity is good; and that excess, extravagance, and going with Pan out beyond the castle boundaries is good too.”
― Robert Bly, Iron John: A Book about Men

“We can’t manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a “litmus test” for the quality of our relationships. Those people in our lives who can respect our boundaries will love our wills, our opinions, our separateness. Those who can’t respect our boundaries are telling us that they don’t love our no. They only love our yes, our compliance.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No

“While these loved ones may not meet our expectations, it is our expectations, not our loved ones, that have let us down.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II