The worst thing you can do

is remind her you exist.

"Slavery" has no plural;

and he who has scorned it is free, – no matter amid how large a mob of over-lords he stands.

– Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 28

At least she’d be spared the discomfort

of watching him try to become an artist.

— William Gibson, as recounted by Joshua Rothman