A bit of prose got stuck in my brain

[quesarah]

That night I thought long and not without despair about what must become of me. I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could endure any misfortune or disfigurement and yet be no less for it. If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

-Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

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[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

The courage to face my choices.

This is what the piece is getting at, to my reckoning. That, and the idea that you will always be strong enough to follow through on the destiny you choose for yourself.

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