If she had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take –
and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight – would she have begun.
and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight – would she have begun.
– Annie Dillard
,The Maytrees
