“I’m sorry,” I said, feeling stupid in the way I’m sorry always feels stupid when you mean it. - Naomi Novik

I'd want to. If you want, I want.

A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women’s work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water. I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.