“There’s a lie ensconced in the corner of my heart— a lie that our culture enshrines as truth. It whispers that it is up to me to hold my life together through my hard work, through my accomplishments, through measuring up, through having the right body and brain and soul. It tells me I must never stop striving.“

— Tish Harrison Warren, /What Grows in Weary Lands/ (New York: Convergent, 2026), 84