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“There was something growing in me, an almost nihilistic desire to set flame to the remaining structures of my former life, to the very safety I clung to; to the fiction that I could depend on anyone other than myself for protection, to the idea that being 'quiet' was the only way to be good. And the deepening of an instinct within me since the first days after James left: that the truth was the only possible foundation for what would come next.”
― Belle Burden