I don't think that's true. [ To a degree, this is the most conversational Rey has been with him aside from the mockery of it she'd made by sharing BB-8's specs with him in the restraints of a torture rack he called the First Order's guest quarters. She chews it over some more before speaking on the subject further—she can't place her finger on the exact point of disagreement, but something in his assessment sits poorly with her. ]
I think anger is like pain, you're right about that, but not in such black and white terms. It's like any other feeling: it demands to be acknowledged and understood before you can find a way to let it go.
[ Inescapable. She taps her fingers on the wrapping of the ration bar and settles on it: that's the word that she can't swallow of his assessment. The absolutes that he uses to define his experiences—weak, not weak; controller or controlled—those, she can rationalize as the necessary adaptations to make sense of the world he's lived in for so long, but to call any emotion inescapable is to deny control over one's self, and she's grown in a world where she can control nothing but herself. ]
no subject
I think anger is like pain, you're right about that, but not in such black and white terms. It's like any other feeling: it demands to be acknowledged and understood before you can find a way to let it go.
[ Inescapable. She taps her fingers on the wrapping of the ration bar and settles on it: that's the word that she can't swallow of his assessment. The absolutes that he uses to define his experiences—weak, not weak; controller or controlled—those, she can rationalize as the necessary adaptations to make sense of the world he's lived in for so long, but to call any emotion inescapable is to deny control over one's self, and she's grown in a world where she can control nothing but herself. ]