"For fifty years I felt things before they happened and called myself foolish for it — my mother trained that out of me early. I'd get a knowing in my chest and override it every single time, then watch it come true and hate myself. Somewhere in the second arc Sophia said intuition isn't a weakness, it's a faculty — and something I'd been ashamed of my whole life turned out to be the truest part of me. I don't second-guess the knowing anymore. I've stopped abandoning myself. That alone was worth ten times the price."

"I almost didn't buy this — I thought it was a women's program. Forty years I provided for everyone and felt nothing doing it. Solid, reliable, and completely walled off. My kids grew up with a father who was in the room but never really there. The day on the armor of the masculine put words to something I'd carried since I was a boy. I'm not soft now — I'm reachable. Last Sunday my son said, 'Dad, you're different, you actually listen.' I had to leave the table so he wouldn't see me cry. Thirty years too late, maybe. But not too late."