Dinah Mulock Craik, English novelist and poet

“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.” (from “A Life for a Life,” 1859)

APRIL 20, 1826-OCT. 12, 1887