" Sometimes … men don’t know how we’ll take their words. They stumble over them in their own minds and wrestle with what they can’t say. It’s much easier to fill a barrow and push it in the rain. He’s laid the path for you, Finella. Question is, will you follow it or go your own way? "

― Dorothy Adamek , Carry Me Home (Blue Wren Shallows, #1)