There hadn’t really been any decision. As she dragged the round-topped trunk up the steps and propped its lid against the table, she was thinking that you never really made up your mind to anything. You simply bent where the pressure was greatest. You didn’t surrender, because surrender was annihilation, but you gave before the pressure.
-Wallace Stegner
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