"Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh..."

“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life for a Life (via nsana)