1. Her belief that your partner needs to defer to your opinion to “respect your choice” instead of keeping you from dying.
2. Questions the idea That when you have a condition where you must drink blood to survive, you must live in shame and pretend not to be that and definitely not enjoy what your body tells you to enjoy
3. That sacrificing yourself because bad guys want you dead is perhaps not because you want to protect your friends, but because you have given up and didn’t consider all the options- you are in shame and pseudo suicidal
4. That just because a person acts like he doesn’t care about others, and does not openly flaunt the ways in which he is a “good person” doesn’t mean that there aren’t good reasons for why he is doing things that other people may not approve of. Sometimes the good man must deceive and upset people in order to do the good thing.
5. Love is not about doing what the other person wants and submitting to their opinion, but doing what is best for that person. And this will produce disagreements with you and the one you love. But that doesn’t mean you love each other less. Love can be selfish, but selfishness is not a bad thing.
6. It is okay to feel pleasure, even when the pleasure you feel is not completely in service to other people. It is okay to feel pleasure just for yourself. It is okay to have fun and forget about everyone else. You don’t have to be the savior all the time, the older sibling protecting everyone else. If that is “selfish,” then selfishness is not a bad thing.
7. There is always another side to a story. And first impressions can be wrong. Love develops with time and trust, through trials and tribulations- not from a meet cute. Honesty and acceptance of past wrongdoings is just as valuable as shame about those wrongdoings.
8. Shame and expressions of repentance is not an expression of a changed man.