You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.

Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?” “Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash

Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.