Liz

“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

“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”
― Anita Shreve

“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”
― Anita Shreve, Light on Snow