Excerpt: “... Whose self-image as a decent partner or a reasonable colleague rests on the foundation of the thousand small surrenders you made and then forgot you made and then were expected to keep making? If the answers come easily, you already know what the eclipse has come to show you. If the answers require you to sit still for longer than comfort allows, the eclipse is already working.…”

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?”