" Your uncle Lawrence is a very moral man. He knows, in his heart, what is right. And he'll do it, no matter what people say of him."
I nodded. "But how do we know when we're doing the right thing, Father?"
He drew up the horse's reins in front of our house. "We don't always, Ebie. Answers don't come easily. At least they never have, to me. I've done many a wrong thing in my time. But I've always tried to make up for it. "

― Ann Rinaldi , Broken Days (Quilt Trilogy, #2)