" I don't know why I feel so tremendously ashamed of myself for leaving them. Why it feels so selfish and horrible to paint. I shouldn't--shouldn't feel that way, should I? I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it."
The rose hung limply from my fingers. "All those years, what I did for them . . . And they didn't try to stop you from taking me. "

― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)