Once I actually understood what was happening, the decision made itself.

It is like that, I think, with most of the choices we imagine will be agonizing.

The agony is in the not-knowing, in the fog before the facts arrive.

Once you can truly see the thing in front of you, once you know, the right action is usually not a torment at all.

It is simply obvious, and you do it, and you wonder why you ever thought it would be hard.

Chapter 16 — The Choice Between Comfort and My Child