" Whatever Row thought was certainly right, and he had never needed to look any deeper than that. It maddened Katie sometimes, but there was also a relief there. Row never needed to gaze backward, wondering whether he had screwed up, whether he had been unfair. The tiny mistakes he made didn't haunt him at night. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)