because she knows I love quotes. I love it!
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 Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
It reminds me of a time when I was younger traveling through Georgia with my parents - my mother and her friend pulled over to a field and picked some wheat stalks and showed us how to rub it in our palms and blow on it to separate the wheat from the chaff. Fun times.
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