" Because the uncomfortable truth is that no one is all bad, or all good. Not mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, or husbands and wives. Life would be much easier if that were the case. Instead, everyone—Charlotte, Willow, Mr. Rigg, even Sister Briganti—was a confusing mixture of love and hate, joy and sorrow, longing and forgetting, misguided truth and painful deception. "

― Jamie Ford , Songs of Willow Frost