if it doesn't burn a little
As he thanks her, she begins to realize just how much he had been worried about telling her this. It’s not that she can’t see why, she can. His past is pretty ugly. The more she learns about him, the more she realizes just how ugly. Yet, if they judged everyone by their past mistakes, the world would be in fucking shambles. She cared about current actions and future intentions.
”You don’t start by trying to change their minds, or hell, even yours possibly. You just start by changing the way you act.” That is what it came down, in the end. Yes, she cared about intentions, but your intentions could be as shiny as gold and if you didn’t act, then all you had was painted coal. ”You don’t do the things you necessarily want to do, you do the things you have to do. And you just keep doing them, and sometimes you stuff your damn feelings until you finally actually start to feel and believe you are the person you have been acting like.”
”You don’t start by trying to change their minds, or hell, even yours possibly. You just start by changing the way you act.” That is what it came down, in the end. Yes, she cared about intentions, but your intentions could be as shiny as gold and if you didn’t act, then all you had was painted coal. ”You don’t do the things you necessarily want to do, you do the things you have to do. And you just keep doing them, and sometimes you stuff your damn feelings until you finally actually start to feel and believe you are the person you have been acting like.”
-- weaver
then what's the point in playing with fire?
