" I had entirely too much foolish pride to go with my foolish ideas. Enough that, when mixed with my insecurity, left me standing paralyzed, unable to get past the possibility that a repentant me would be rejected as surely as the unrepentant one and I’d be left without a scrap of dignity. Dignity. How is it that it’s most important to us when we’re least entitled to it? "

― Meg Waite Clayton , The Wednesday Sisters