" What about not letting people do things for me? What if I want to be entrusted to myself?”
Agnese speared another bean. “I’m sorry, dear, but that’s simply not how it’s done. I did not invent the rules for us women, and they are not mine to alter. Besides, complete freedom…it’s an ideal. An impossibility. Haven’t you read enough of my books to have learned a thing or two about the world?”
An impossibility. The words hit her like stones thrown from a rooftop. Maybe Cass did want the impossible. Love. Freedom. Maybe she was striving for things that no one could have. "

― Fiona Paul , Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1)