Excerpt: “...You have been sick with the effort of pretending you were well, and it's the pretending that has been the sickness, and the eclipse is the moment this pretending stops working, the way a drug stops working when the body builds tolerance…”

Excerpt: "...What have you been paying for with your life, and has the purchase been worth the price? What did you trade for stability? What did you surrender, in small increments, across years, in exchange for the right to call yourself secure?”

Excerpt: “...Think of it as a tree. You have spent years tending the crown, pruning the branches into impressive shapes… And the eclipse is the wind that tests the roots. If the roots are shallow, if the soil has been neglected… then the wind does what wind has always done...”