" She gazes out across the darkening waters of the loch for a moment, considering. Then she says, 'No, Lexie. I wasn't angry that you left. I was angry because you came back.' She looks me squarely in the eye. 'You were my hope, you see. The proof that there was a world out there, and it might not have been one that I could ever have been part of but you still linked me to it, even after we lost touch. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Skylark's Secret