“There hadn’t really been any decision. As she dragged the round topped trunk up the steps and propped it’s lid against the table, she was thinking that you never really made up your mind to anything, you simply bent where the pressure was greatest. You didn’t surrender because surrender was annihilation you gave before the pressure.”

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner March 1, 1991 by Penguin Books – originally published 1943.