" He believed firmly in a soldier’s right to cry in public upon surviving the attentions of the surgeon, and a miner’s after being lifted from a shaft collapse. He wasn’t convinced in the least that anyone in an office at the HO had anything to cry about. He was also aware, though, that this was probably a very unfair thing to think. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)