We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired

There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.