“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.