Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.