I don’t want easy. I want true. - Karen Lord

Getting information out of them was like extracting gold from ore—a lot of labour and time, and why bother to do it when you know there’s a store just around the corner?

"Never?" he said, dismayed.
"Never," she reiterated firmly.
He nodded, pretending to be resigned, but secretly he thought that there were always ways to get around "never."

Women fell into that category of fantasies and dreams that worked well when unfulfilled but presented all kinds of problems when brought out into the real world of trial and failure.