I wanted to hear her warm voice, the passion which seemed to flow through her every movement, her every word. She was life in a way I hadn’t seen before. So many humans thought that to be alive meant to do reckless things, to take great risks and chances: ‘living,’ they called it. But this woman with her delicious curves and strikingly bright brown eyes, she was comfort. She wasn’t risk, she wasn’t the edge I walked over and over again. She was routine, family, home.
— A. E. Mann, Second Daughter








