" ... I heard her say,
- They think this baby is an admission of defeat,
and then,
- They think it means that I no longer care. Or that I don't believe in what I say -
but watching her I thought that it was not defeat at all. Rather, it was a kind of furious defiance that had let her to have a child, despite all she believed about the future - a kind of pact with the world that, having increased her stake in it, she should try to protect what she had found to love. "

― Jessie Greengrass , The High House