The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.