" [Liddie} looked at Bernie, tears in her eyes. 'What I want to say is this: Try not to do what I've done most of my life. Which is this. Keeping hurt places hidden. And then those places turn to anger, and I don't know where the anger comes from half the time. And that Anger pushes everyone away, and I'm left feeling all alone.'
'I need your father, and I need you.' She took a deep breath. 'It's not safe to love. There's no way to make love safe. Every time you love someone, you risk losing them. But living in safety is no way to live. "

― Eleanor Morse , Margreete's Harbor