Every time you make a decision primarily to avoid someone else's disappointment, you give them a small piece of your future.
— Zara Maheen, The Invisible Life: How to Stop Living on Autopilot
“Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.”

“All she felt was the shift, slow, steady, inevitable, like a truth gathering itself, a story preparing to open its jaws.”
