Keaton

“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved